Online Activities: Iroquoian Longhouse
Storage Areas in the Longhouse
Storage areas are not like below ground storage pits. Instead, these are spaces where corn, beans, and squash were stored in huge bark casks above the ground. In the end storage areas, there are usually no below ground pits. Above ground storage areas are used instead of pits because the casks of corn being stored would have been very heavy. It is likely that their weight would have collapsed any below ground pits.
The longhouse walls are coloured pink and the storage area baffles are coloured purple on the floorplan below.
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