Traveling Resource Trunks

Shelter

Suggested Adaptations for Puzzles from the Past: Problem Solving Through Archeology

This trunk contains materials related to the Wichita grass house and the Pawnee earth lodge.

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The grass house and the earth lodge are both built in the shape of a circle and are made of materials found in nature. They both have:

a door

a smoke hole

beds

a place in the center for a fire