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Yokut Houses Yokut Houses
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Yokut Houses

Yokut Houses
The Yokut, Native Americans of central California, built several types of dwellings. The largest were wedge-shaped houses constructed from poles and covered with mats of grass, reeds, or other fiber. These houses stood in a row and in front of them a covered wooden structure called a ramada provided shade for preparing food and doing other work.
From Lewis Henry Morgan, Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines (Washington, DC, 1881)
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Native Americans of North America; Native American Architecture
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