Technical Plan of a Nlaka'pamux Winter Pit House
James Teit's drawing of the semi-subterranean winter house of the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) people, published in The Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, in 1900. The floor sat below ground level and the timber roof was covered with bark, grass and earth, with the notched log ladder through the smoke hole serving as the entrance. The same house form, called kekuli in Chinook jargon and c7istkten in Secwepemctsin, was the Secwepemc winter home for thousands of years.
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- James Teit, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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- Public domain
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- American Museum of Natural History (1900 publication)
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- A community memberJuly 4, 2026
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