Klamath Plank House

This is a sepia image of a plank house near the mouth of the Klamath River in Klamath California. This is also available in black & white.... more

by Scott Pellegrin

Title

Klamath Plank House

Artist

Scott Pellegrin

Medium

Photograph

Description

This is a sepia image of a plank house near the mouth of the Klamath River in Klamath California. This is also available in black & white.

A plank house is a type of house constructed by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, typically using cedar planks. The Yurok house was built of redwood planks split from logs with wedges, and held together by squared poles tied with grapevines. The walls were low. The door was a round hole about two feet in diameter, located a few inches above ground level.

Inside the house, a pit several feet deep was dug, leaving a wide shelf around the room. People used a notched log ladder to climb down inside. In a fire pit in the center, food was cooked by hanging it on poles over the fire. The women and children worked, ate, and slept here. Utensils and baskets for food were stored on the wide shelf.

Each village had several sweathouses, smaller than the family houses and dug out inside to about four feet below the ground. A fire of fir branches heated the sweathouse with thick smoke. Each sweathouse had seven sleeping places where men and boys slept, except when the weather was very warm.

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January 12th, 2017