Show ANIILIIO INDIAN SlUMNiER VVICKIUPo j JIST T I a + Y ya t a I K V 1 t Y 1 l I fe r jr 1 r idh l r 1 4 Correspondence Tribune Foil Hall Indian Agency Ida Jan 22Some time sInce mention was made 01 the meager materials of which an Indian could construct a comfortable comfort-able winter habitation He is equally I apt designing a structure that Mill modify the heat and hot winds of au Idaho summer Tho framework of such a structure Is of light poles set In the earth In a circle meeting at the top where they are secured by rawhide raw-hide bands numerous other bands of the same material being run around the framework from top to bottom at intervals of fifteen or twenty inches This frame Is now covered thickly with willow brush the tops down a neat fit being made where they met at the apex Th whole Is then thatched with a rough but exceedingly stong matting which they make of rushes and long grasses the warp being be-ing of ruches while the roof is sparsely made ol thin strings of buckskin The irattp K pi iced on the structure over the 1 1 gas iiid In such a manner that tic ri s ere ns nearly perpendicular as pn nbo l i In this way directing any moiriuio during rains downward thc spate w or collecting but little thuD avoiding ullbut a very slight leakage A roundtDpird door Is made and the Indian has a summer home far In advance ad-vance of a L tent Its thick walls of comparatively ponconductlng materials = mate-rials rendering it cool and comfortable at all times Carefully built It Is really astonishing amount of rainfall rain-fall such a structure will withstand keeping Its I occupants dry In the moot Inclement of Idaho summer seasons T M BRIDGES |