Housing Apache
frame of apache wickiup all people in apache tribe lived in 1 of 3 types of houses. first of teepee, lived in plains. type of housing wickiup, 8-foot-tall (2.4 m) frame of wood held yucca fibers , covered in brush in apache groups in highlands. if family member lived in wickiup , died, wickiup burned. final housing hogan, earthen structure in desert area cool keeping in hot weather of northern mexico. below description of chiricahua wickiups recorded anthropologist morris opler: home in family lives made women , ordinarily circular, dome-shaped brush dwelling, floor @ ground level. 7 feet high @ center , approximately 8 feet in diameter. build it, long fresh poles of oak or willow driven ground or placed in holes made digging stick. these poles, form framework, arranged @ one-foot intervals , bound @ top yucca-leaf strands. on them thatching of bundles of big bluestem grass or bear grass tied, shingle style, yucca strings. smoke hole opens above central fireplace. hide, suspended ...