James P. Guillot
Published: 2017-10-22
Total Pages: 42
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Excerpt from Louisiana Conservation Review, Vol. 4: July 1935 Culturally, the tribes of Louisiana belong to the Eastern Maize Area, that portion of the eastern United States where agriculture takes its place with hunting, fishing, and the gathering of wild fruits as a source of subsistence. The tribes of this area may be classed as a semi-sedentary peo ple, dwelling in villages along waterways, raising crops in extensive fields, and making use of the wild foods offered in considerable abundance. The familiar tipi or cone-shaped dwelling was missing in Louisiana. Instead there were a num ber of kinds of semi-permanent houses. In the southern part of the State was the palmetto house, a thatching of leaves over a framework of poles, with a single entrance and a smoke hole through the roof. In the north were still more pretentious houses, with framework of posts and poles, both round and square at the base, with domed roofs, plastered over with mud, and covered with pal metto leaves or grass, and finally with mats. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.