Abstract
Not much information about Tena houses can be found in early published accounts. Travelers report permanent villages with semisubterranean houses built of logs, and roofed with bark and turf, from all the Yukon tribes which we visited, with the exception of the Tanana, but give few details of construction. Dall however, specifies for the Un'ā-khō-tanā, between Tanana and Ruby (or, as we should say, between Tanana and the Nowitna), that “their houses are less solidly built and less permanent than those of the Lowlanders [Nulato to Holy Cross].” Of the Tanana Indians, Schwatka reports:“Their habitations, except among the Indians living near the mouth, are very temporary, being made of moose skins in winter, and generally of a lighter and less substantial character even than this in summer. Near the mouth of the [Tanana] river some of the tribe have underground houses, such as are in use among the Innuits, and are called by the Russians ‘barraboras.’”
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