Underground Houses on the British Columbian Coast

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Author: Barnett, H. G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1944
• Subjects: Museology; Archeology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); History; Bering Sea; Pacific; Fraser River; eskimo*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/275784; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600028523

Semi-Subterranean houses with an entrance through the roof are a well known feature of the interior of British Columbia, having been described for the Thompson, the Chilcotin, the Shuswap and others of the upper Fraser River valley. They have, in fact, an even wider distribution east of the Coast an...