Settlements and dwellings

Homes of American aborigines were diverse in their shapes and sizes: from wind shields and shelters made of branches to huge public homes that housed hundreds of people. Thus, the Tling/its lived in permanent villages located on the sea coast. They consisted of community homes that were up to 150-180 meters long. Facades of these houses were facing the sea from which side there was the entrance. Houses were decorated with fretwork and painted. Inside a house wooden plank beds were put along walls on which people sat and slept. Each family had their own fixed space in the house. The Athabaskan people often migrated following animals, so most of the year they lived in conical portable tents made of skins. Groups of people that lived next to the Eskimos adopted from them stationary semi-earth winter dwellings. The Eskimo people themselves build igloo and kazhim – community houses for several families.

Summer dwelling of the Alaska Eskimo.                             USA, Alaska. The Eskimo.             Edward H. Mitchell, Publisher. Late 19th cent.		Tipi - conic tent of the Indians of the Plains. USA. Indians of the Plains, early 20th c.		Pueblo Laguna, the New Mexico State. USA. New-Mexico. Pueblo Indians, 19th c.
Pueblo Santa Clara, the New Mexico State. USA. New-Mexico. Pueblo Indians, 19th c.		The Tlingit settlement at Novo Arkhangelsk - the capital of Russian America. USA. Russian America. Sitka Island. Voznesensky I.		Village of Unalashka. USA. Unalaska. The Aleutians. Iohelson V., 1909
Village of Unalashka. USA. Unalaska. The Aleutians. Iohelson V., 1909		Litia at a church. USA. Unalaska. The Aleutians. Iohelson V., 1909		Aleutian settlement Nikolskoye. USA. Umnak. The Aleutians. Iohelson V., 1909