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[BillinOregon]

Well, New Sweden on the Delaware lasted from 1638 to 1655, when the Dutch took it over. Quite a few Finns among the population.

 

[coloradoclyde]

http://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=1-2-893

 

[Black Hand]

Excellent!
3 variations of a Wikiup are seen in that image....

 

[coloradoclyde]

Some things bother me about that picture....Besides being painted by someone who never even came to America, the square windows in two of the "wikiups" (if that's what you're calling them) seem oddly out of place.
Windows mean glass and glass had to be imported.

 

[Coot]

Agree that artists depictions based on verbal descriptions are often off on the details (or more) but windows do not require glass. Hides, shutters, oiled paper all have been used when glass was not available or too expensive.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Glass aside.........Wikiups with windows?... :shocked2: ....Highly questionable.

 

[Bo T]

They look more like firing ports to me.

 

[Nativearizonan]

Some things bother me about that picture....Besides being painted by someone who never even came to America, the square windows in two of the "wikiups" (if that's what you're calling them) seem oddly out of place.
Windows mean glass and glass had to be imported.

From Science and Technology in Colonial America
By William E. Burns (2005) p68:

Early Swedish settlers in the Delaware Valley made windows out of the transparent mineral mica

I had heard that before, but searched for a link and found that one. No source given.
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=031333160X

 

[coloradoclyde]

Great!...Now the question at hand is, are the structures with windows depicting wikiups or clapboard houses?

I thought the Swedish settlers built clapboard houses... :hmm:

 

[Claude Mathis]

Great!...Now the question at hand is, are the structures with windows depicting wikiups or clapboard houses?

I thought the Swedish settlers built clapboard houses... :hmm:

The quote...

 

[coloradoclyde]

I guess that throws "wikiup" out the "window"... :haha:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Or maybe not......................

SAUK AND FOX HABITATION COVERED WITH ELM BARK

 

[coloradoclyde]

Houses of the Mdewakanton Tribe

 

[Claude Mathis]

Or maybe not......................

SAUK AND FOX HABITATION COVERED WITH ELM BARK

By the time there was photography, I assume many things had changed for the native people? Metal tools, cloth, firearms, "dwellings", etc.?

 

[coloradoclyde]

Very true....War, Trade, Disease, 200+ years of European influence....

We know that natives often emulated white man things.....

 

[satx78247]

Several of the Southern Woodland tribes put "windows" in their longhouses, which had "shutters" or hides for use in the colder or stormy weather.

Generally, the farther North that a tribal group lived, the less likely that the longhouses had "windows" for cross-ventilation.

In some hotter climates (or in much colder areas) NA sometimes built "half-dugouts", too.
Some Cherokee groups "enlarged" natural caves or built "artificial caves" into the side of steep hills.- Caves are warmer in Winter & cooler in the Summer than many other sorts of structures.
(TSALAGIYI/"Cherokee" is actually a Muskogee word for "cave dwellers".)

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

Plausible!....But, do you have a reference or visual example?

Of the windows that is....

 

[satx78247]

NOPE.

yours, satx

 

[Nativearizonan]

Here is a 1720 drawing showing what appear to be windows on the end of several wikiups in an Indian Fort

http://teaching.msa.maryland.gov/000001/000000/000132/images/fort.jpg

DESCRIPTION: Inset, The Indian Fort Susquehanok
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: Published as inset in Herman Moll's A new map of the north parts of America claimed by France, 1720
NOTES: Fort Susquehannock was located south from the Great Lake region. There was one known fort of the Susquehannock located on the Western Shore of Maryland, however it is not certain that it is the one on the picture presented. The Susquehannock tribe was Iroquoian-speaking but did not belong to the Iroquois Confederacy. The tribe resided in Pennsylvania and northern Maryland.

 

[Nativearizonan]

Another drawing of wikiups with windows and various other openings, done in 1587 near Roanoke Colony, VA, By Theodore De Bry:
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/nativeamerican/graphics/pomeiooc.png
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/nativeamerican/6_archai.html