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  2. Tobati people - Wikipedia

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    Tobatis' daily dwelling place is called a sway house. The sway house is almost similar to the traditional kariwari house, with differences in the allocation or function of its rooms. This is done as a development of the traditional house form so that the traditional house and the living house can be distinguished while still remaining a ...

  3. Dwelling - Wikipedia

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    The term includes an individual condominium unit, cooperative unit, manufactured home, mobile home, or trailer if it is used as a residence. Under the Oregon law, a "dwelling" is defined as a "building which regularly or intermittently is occupied by a person lodging therein at night, whether or not a person is actually present." The United ...

  4. Medieval household - Wikipedia

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    From the household of the king to the humblest peasant dwelling, more or less distant relatives and varying numbers of servants and dependents would cohabit with the master of the house and his immediate family. The structure of the medieval household was largely dissolved by the advent of privacy in early modern Europe.

  5. Ancestral Puebloan dwellings - Wikipedia

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    Cliff dwellings – Constructed in the sides of the mesas and mountains of the Southwest, cliff dwellings comprised a large number of the defensive structures of the Pueblo people. Jacal is a traditional adobe house built by the ancestral Pueblo peoples. Slim close-set poles were tied together and filled out with mud, clay and grasses, or adobe ...

  6. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    A wooden house in Tartu, Estonia. This is a list of house types.Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or single-family detached homes and various types of attached or multi-family residential dwellings.

  7. Hogan - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of the hogan as of the 1930s. A hogan (/ ˈ h oʊ ɡ ɑː n / or / ˈ h oʊ ɡ ən /; from Navajo hooghan) is the primary, traditional dwelling of the Navajo people.Other traditional structures include the summer shelter, the underground home, and the sweat house.

  8. Dogtrot house - Wikipedia

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    This photograph was taken in 1934; the dwelling was subsequently destroyed. Note the split-shingle roof and stick-and-mud chimney. The dogtrot, also known as a breezeway house, dog-run, or possum-trot, is a style of house that was common throughout the Southeastern United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

  9. Shekhinah - Wikipedia

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    Shekhinah (Hebrew: שְׁכִינָה ‎, Modern: Šəḵīna, Tiberian: Šeḵīnā) [1] is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the presence of God in a place. This concept is found in Judaism and the Torah, as mentioned in Exodus 25:8. [2] The word "Shekhinah" is found in the Bible.