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Two 1761 Wigwams at Niantic, Connecticut

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William C. Sturtevant
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Abstract

Detailed drawings done by Ezra Stiles in 1761 show that Western Niantic domed wigwams were very like modern Kickapoo and other Northeastern North American aboriginal houses. Adena and Hopewell post molds are consistent with the same type of house.

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American Antiquity , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , October 1975 , pp. 437 - 444
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1975

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