Haida House This is a model of a house made by the Haida people about a hundred
years ago. The house is made of red cedar wood. The roof has six rafters
and a square smoke hole. There are four corner posts, two of them had
carvings on the top of watchmen, little men with tall hats who watched
for danger. The door is a hole cut in one front totem pole. The pole
has carvings of animals and birds that are painted black and red. There
is another watchman on top of the pole. Inside the house there is a
pit. There is also a carving of a beaver on the back wall, chewing
on a piece of wood. The Haida lived in Alaska and on an island near
Canada. They called themselves the "Good People." I like this house
because children can study the animals and figure out what they are. |