What type of house did the Powhatan Indians live in?

Answer 1

they would cut young, thin tree trunks called saplings into the groundto from a frame. This frame would be covered with animal hides, bark, or mats made from plants

Answer 2

The Powhatan tribes called their dwellings yeahawkan or yohacan. These were longhouses with flat sides and ends but curved roofs, entirely covered with sheets of bark. Larger versions, used as meeting houses or for chiefs such as Powhatan himself were called machacammac.

Answer 3

Powhatan houses were of the longhouse type. John Smith described the villages he saw:

"Their houses are built like our arbors, of small young sprigs bowed and tied, and so close covered with mats, or the bark of trees, very handsomely, that notwithstanding either wind, rain, or weather, they are as warm as stoves but very smoky, yet at the top of the house there is a hole made for the smoke to go into right over the fire. Against the fire they lie on little hurdles of reeds covered with a mat, borne from the ground a foot and more by a hurdle of wood On these, round about the house, they lie, heads and points, one by the other, against the fire, some covered with mats, some with skins, and some stark naked lie on the ground, from six to twenty in a house…. In some places are from two to fifty of these houses together, or but little separated by groves of trees."

He saw some longhouses that were 40 to 60 yards (120 to 180 feet) long. They were usually covered with birch bark, but sometimes mats of plant fibre were used instead.

The artist John White painted a Powhatan village and clearly showed the longhouses within a stockade of protective poles. See link below for an image:

Answer 4

they are made out of tree branches and decorated with buffalo or deer skin for the top of the house to prevent rain and snow..

Answer 5

wood or bark houses