Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)

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Edward S. Curtis - *50% OFF OPPORTUNITY* Ceremonial Ki - Pima - Vintage Photogravure - Volume, 9.5 x 12.5 inches - The early dwellings of the Pima and their immediate congeners were quite alike: a dome-shape structure about seven feet high and fifteen feet in diameter at the base. A circular excavation twelve to eighteen inches deep was first made, in the centre of which four crotch posts were set about five feet apart, forming a square. Two heavy roof timbers rested upon these posts, five feet from the ground, supporting ten or more stout cross-beams. Numerous stave-like ribs of mesquite, tied to horizontal poles that extended around the outside like hoops, were stretched from the roof timbers to the bottom of the shallow excavation. The whole was thatched with arrow-brush and covered with clay, leaving only a small opening at the base on the eastern side as an entrance. Only a few of the old form of houses are now in use among the Pima. For the greater part their domiciles are rectangular, with flat roofs and straight walls of mud filled in between poles fastened horizontally to opposite sides of stout posts, or with brush-wattled walls plastered inside and out with mud.
Title:
*50% OFF OPPORTUNITY* Ceremonial Ki - Pima
Date:
1907
Size:
Volume, 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Medium:
Vintage Photogravure
 
The early dwellings of the Pima and their immediate congeners were quite alike: a dome-shape structure about seven feet high and fifteen feet in diameter at the base. A circular excavation twelve to eighteen inches deep was first made, in the centre of which four crotch posts were set about five feet apart, forming a square. Two heavy roof timbers rested upon these posts, five feet from the ground, supporting ten or more stout cross-beams. Numerous stave-like ribs of mesquite, tied to horizontal poles that extended around the outside like hoops, were stretched from the roof timbers to the bottom of the shallow excavation. The whole was thatched with arrow-brush and covered with clay, leaving only a small opening at the base on the eastern side as an entrance. Only a few of the old form of houses are now in use among the Pima. For the greater part their domiciles are rectangular, with flat roofs and straight walls of mud filled in between poles fastened horizontally to opposite sides of stout posts, or with brush-wattled walls plastered inside and out with mud.
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