View of Single Family Dewelling in the Powhatan Village
Yehakhin huts, single-family homes, of the re-created Powhatan Indian Village at the Jamestown Settlement in Jamestown, Virginia These Yehakhin are small houses, usually 8-10 feet tall. They are made of wooden frames which are covered with woven mats and sheets of birchbark. The frame can be shaped like a dome, like a cone, or like a rectangle with an arched roof. Once the birchbark is in place, ropes or strips of wood are wrapped around the wigwam to hold the bark in place.
View of Single Family Dewelling in the Powhatan Village
Yehakhin huts, single-family homes, of the re-created Powhatan Indian Village at the Jamestown Settlement in Jamestown, Virginia These Yehakhin are small houses, usually 8-10 feet tall. They are made of wooden frames which are covered with woven mats and sheets of birchbark. The frame can be shaped like a dome, like a cone, or like a rectangle with an arched roof. Once the birchbark is in place, ropes or strips of wood are wrapped around the wigwam to hold the bark in place.