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Bohío, Caribbean dwelling with palm thatched roof once commonly found in Puerto Rico, Cuba and Hispaniola. Chickee, the Creek/Seminole word to describe an open dwelling with a palm thatched roof frequently constructed by Florida's Native Americans. Manila Galleons, Spanish Colonial Mexico and Spanish East Indies trade/cultural exchange route.
A lean-to shelter is a simplified free-standing version of a wilderness hut with three solid walls and a single- or, in the case of an Adirondack lean-to, offset-pitched gable roof. The open side is commonly oriented away from the prevailing weather. Often it is made of rough logs or unfinished wood and used for camping.
Roofing material is the outermost layer on the roof of a building, sometimes self-supporting, but generally supported by an underlying structure. A building's roofing material provides shelter from the natural elements. The outer layer of a roof shows great variation dependent upon availability of material, and the nature of the supporting ...
In the southwestern United States, a ramada (from Spanish rama 'branch') is a temporary or permanent shelter equipped with a roof but no walls, or only partially enclosed. Ramadas have traditionally been constructed with branches or bushes by indigenous Americans living in the region. However, the term today is also applied to permanent ...
Burdei or bordei – a dugout or pit-house with a sod roof in Romania, Ukraine and Canada. Cabana – an open shelter; Chozo – Spanish for hut; Clochán – Irish dry stone hut; Dry stone hut; Earth lodge – Native American dwelling; Heartebeest Hut – hut used by South African Trekboer built of reeds, sometimes plastered with mud. Hytte ...
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A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground. Dugouts can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, or dug into a hillside.