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Mother and children at a camp on the Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation, 1949 An Indian camp with a sleep chickee, cooking chickee, and eating chickee. Chikee or Chickee ("house" in the Creek and Mikasuki languages spoken by the Seminoles and Miccosukees) is a shelter supported by posts, with a raised floor, a thatched roof and open sides.
Disney animator Dorse Lanpher (1935–2011) notes in his memoirs the large covered lanais on the ocean side of his Honolulu hospital. [9] Today, air-conditioned buildings such as hotels often offer "enclosed" rather than "open" lanais, sometimes meaning a large dining hall with a 'wall' of sliding glass doors. [10]
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. A laavu in the Pukala recreational forest. This style of lean-to is popular in Finland and Scandinavia, and known as a laavu in Finnish, gapskjul or slogbod in Swedish, and gapahuk in Norwegian.
Octagon House in Watertown, Wisconsin, built 1853 David Van Gelder Octagon House in Catskill, New York, built 1860, photographed on January 13, 2008. This is a list of octagon houses. The style became popular in the United States and Canada following the publication of Orson Squire Fowler's 1848 book The Octagon House, A Home for All.
The house yards also contain a small mature mango tree, a large eucalyptus tree and a bean tree. A further three mature mango trees shade the stockmen's quarters and the workshop. Most of the mature native trees within the homestead area are locally occurring eucalyptus varieties including blackbutt, with some box and ironwood.
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