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| Title | Aleut barabara, or sod hut, Akutan, Bering Sea, ca. 1912 |
| Photographer | Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940 |
| Date | ca. 1912 |
| Notes | PH Coll 247.15 |
| Contextual Notes | A barabara is a traditional Aleut home. Sod and grass are laid over a frame of whale ribs or wood covering an oblong pit. A barabara, pronounced buh-RAH-buh-ruh, blends into its surroundings quite well. The homes typically were 35 to 40 feet long and 20 to 30 feet wide. Aleuts entered the home by descending a pole ladder extending through the roof. A large common area in the middle was surrounded by sleeping areas along the walls. Sometimes graves were also dug into the walls.A typical village on the Alaska Peninsula or the Aleutian Islands might have had 200 residents in five or 10 barabaras. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Huts--Alaska--Akutan |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Sod houses--Alaska--Akutan; Aleuts--Dwellings--Alaska--Akutan; Vernacular architecture--Alaska--Akutan; Architecture, Domestic--Alaska--Akutan |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Akutan |
| Digital Collection | John E. Thwaites Photographs |
| Order Number | THW008 |
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| Negative Number | THWAITES 247.15 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | John E. Thwaites Photograph Collection. PH Coll 247
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003. |
