"This plank house is truly a comfortable place to live in the winter. We tell stories, participate in important ceremonies, and enjoy the foods we harvested and preserved. The house is built from cedar planks and timber posts and beams. The planks on the walls are tied to the thin posts with withes (thin cedar branches). The roof is sloped to shed water. We can move the roof planks above the fires to let the smoke out during the day. When the fires die down to embers in the evening, we can move the roof planks to close it up. We place stones on the roof planks to prevent them from blowing away in the wind. Climb on the roof and see for yourself. If we want to make the house bigger, it's easy to remove planks and add on. We can rearrange the interior by moving the hanging cedar mats. It's a wonderful and flexible home for our people in the winter. There's another type of house our upriver relatives use called a pit house. Can you find it?"
Architecture of the Salish Sea Tribes of the Pacific Northwest -- Christina L. Wallace: https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.178/9nr.4fe.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FITCH_Christina-Wallace_final_web.pdf
