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A wigwam, wikiup, wetu, or wiigiwaam is a semi-permanent domed dwelling formerly used by certain Native American tribes and First Nations people and still used for ceremonial events. The term wikiup i
Apache wickiup, by Edward S. Curtis, 1903
Apache wickiup
Paiute wickiup
Dakota-style tipis and Ojibwe wigwam, White Earth, Minnesota, 1928
Longhouses were a style of residential dwelling built by Native American and First Nations peoples in various parts of North America. Sometimes separate longhouses were built for community meetings.
Wigwam
…surfaces make it an ideal shelter for all kinds of conditions. Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands resided in either wigwams or longhouses. These structures are made with a frame of arched poles, most often wooden, which are covered with some sort of bark roofing material. Details of…
Later day Haudenosaunee longhouse (c.1885) 50–60 people
Haudenosaunee longhouse replica in New York State Museum, Albany, NY
A Northwest Coast longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
Interior of a Salish Longhouse, British Columbia, 1864. Watercolour by Edward M. Richardson (1810–1874).