tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83018077717220299372024-03-05T19:14:32.520-05:00Historic St. Mary's City Extreme Make-over: Witchott EditionThis summer at Historic St. Mary's City of southern Maryland, the Witchott Reconstruction project is underway. This blog will allow you to follow along with every step of the construction process of the Wooded Indian Hamlet witchott long-house and get a glimpse into the lives of the first residents of St. Mary's City.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-40540590574180653612011-08-18T16:01:00.000-04:002011-08-18T16:01:42.520-04:00Finishing the Frame!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The frame is finished!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2u0X6HBmKB7oIiCEz3udMLO8WbZ1jLqRpjlPQoY9TIuJko740_4_EgB6ZVEtlLjR0MbwOBfPHLDsHjmn1_V-VecU3GDcqaJiCTV9oB3JbTJHGwDBIHcc-OgZL_TbJ64bzG6KUFJsMRMf2/s1600/DSC08250.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2u0X6HBmKB7oIiCEz3udMLO8WbZ1jLqRpjlPQoY9TIuJko740_4_EgB6ZVEtlLjR0MbwOBfPHLDsHjmn1_V-VecU3GDcqaJiCTV9oB3JbTJHGwDBIHcc-OgZL_TbJ64bzG6KUFJsMRMf2/s320/DSC08250.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> All of the arches and poles have now been put in place for the witchott's frame.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwQ9Kh7PibezOxu70Ri3QkWQ67eSoR_oBWCCDf50OzlhVGmkGMLY5drYRNmnrBinWkJCbukc8Gucn97xIqTwTOOrcT0dJfjWp4PKlqE0o870GpHooDtgfYDEZ4zna7foLv9AgTKhQBOxYn/s1600/DSC08254.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwQ9Kh7PibezOxu70Ri3QkWQ67eSoR_oBWCCDf50OzlhVGmkGMLY5drYRNmnrBinWkJCbukc8Gucn97xIqTwTOOrcT0dJfjWp4PKlqE0o870GpHooDtgfYDEZ4zna7foLv9AgTKhQBOxYn/s320/DSC08254.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The Re-Construction team's next objective is to secure the poles of the finished frame with screws to fortify the structure of the witchott.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik73XfxxUOvjcpH655lUrfpzGfgjDzkBd1fOzI67ddJWfVly1udckfkPey8nC7I6ZGiaJXHsm1WG2mCT0-brbzKI05uceYm70Y98Pr0m2jalKrsvK1UHBm-F5_WhYIOyeacaDM0GByCweu/s1600/DSC08257.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik73XfxxUOvjcpH655lUrfpzGfgjDzkBd1fOzI67ddJWfVly1udckfkPey8nC7I6ZGiaJXHsm1WG2mCT0-brbzKI05uceYm70Y98Pr0m2jalKrsvK1UHBm-F5_WhYIOyeacaDM0GByCweu/s320/DSC08257.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The team ran into an obstacle, however, as the screws would not penetrate both the horizontal and verticle poles. Coby and Sam first experimented with lubricating the screws with soap then decided to drill holes through the poles first, then insert the screws.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8MYIHmlAOPJld2Phe-It5EYajCG1z-9C4ggMqSkjycN7Q53m390siILvKAx4AxpgllxUPkE_KdBHeImnnkOKU2fyrEhhzX_DNcq8mJ2l5K9K9zSMVvxmOfvMQGjp8w7-p4ah82th6RPF7/s1600/DSC08265.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8MYIHmlAOPJld2Phe-It5EYajCG1z-9C4ggMqSkjycN7Q53m390siILvKAx4AxpgllxUPkE_KdBHeImnnkOKU2fyrEhhzX_DNcq8mJ2l5K9K9zSMVvxmOfvMQGjp8w7-p4ah82th6RPF7/s320/DSC08265.JPG" width="240" /></a> </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIjUeYoPSk8_QfmWJKWNIh2PpRRe2UHi6n3WYFr4Sp4emFFce_1R3fTyUwFpPgj_86JJi6ACv2L7mMzhQP8qIXxc-DxHPJnC2cLJeUEQuqGZu-8HOLbBy3_FilAHtrEgyCVRbBf08mdtV/s1600/DSC08271.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIjUeYoPSk8_QfmWJKWNIh2PpRRe2UHi6n3WYFr4Sp4emFFce_1R3fTyUwFpPgj_86JJi6ACv2L7mMzhQP8qIXxc-DxHPJnC2cLJeUEQuqGZu-8HOLbBy3_FilAHtrEgyCVRbBf08mdtV/s320/DSC08271.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Once the screws were in place, they cut away the strings wch had previously held the frame together.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp-TwgnjknCSgjwUDCc-PD_RDsk-U8uNlW6HdTxvGdYBGeoy4ilyyhtyYci7dyf9K2g-tNgP4SruusCjCOnlRCjAv60I9Y7w4Mp8Nach2vP2vlyAQCWucULBKSAry0thIwBtolvBWl_oUg/s1600/DSC08280.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp-TwgnjknCSgjwUDCc-PD_RDsk-U8uNlW6HdTxvGdYBGeoy4ilyyhtyYci7dyf9K2g-tNgP4SruusCjCOnlRCjAv60I9Y7w4Mp8Nach2vP2vlyAQCWucULBKSAry0thIwBtolvBWl_oUg/s320/DSC08280.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> When all the poles have been screwed together, the team can finally begin working on the interior and finishing touches to the exterior of the witchott.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiej-MRXvPD_R0-Eaq99gdEUmRKsmYw2ZtN9oMhkDrw2PHs3HO6dbDmmynoP-NH1EoFPiB30OKVLjWa-fDgeyVdTdhdaz3BhOZ__A5V-zDag7yTW68OH3Ji4iW1MiaHuUDl4_7t0qs7T5Th/s1600/DSC08256.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiej-MRXvPD_R0-Eaq99gdEUmRKsmYw2ZtN9oMhkDrw2PHs3HO6dbDmmynoP-NH1EoFPiB30OKVLjWa-fDgeyVdTdhdaz3BhOZ__A5V-zDag7yTW68OH3Ji4iW1MiaHuUDl4_7t0qs7T5Th/s320/DSC08256.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-31781534067688200382011-08-17T16:21:00.000-04:002011-08-17T16:21:27.092-04:00Looking like a Long- House!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipXj1-Gc0BmEnlBc88NDxrS2pGJAnX1AWco8tfxBRD-xW5r8huIh2r_3I1u053ZwFj9agap3uH2vdN-h82t21fT8_s-ugluBlgkGnU_hONtMk2E_FJBs5NWzK5bZKTpCEoN_rH2yN0KjJ7/s1600/DSC08206.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipXj1-Gc0BmEnlBc88NDxrS2pGJAnX1AWco8tfxBRD-xW5r8huIh2r_3I1u053ZwFj9agap3uH2vdN-h82t21fT8_s-ugluBlgkGnU_hONtMk2E_FJBs5NWzK5bZKTpCEoN_rH2yN0KjJ7/s320/DSC08206.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The Witchott Re-Construction Project continues to progress toward a fully constructed witchott! With the additional horizontal poles, the ends of the witchott have been formed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYf7JBeCDCLWwxDY2eRF0GCWGUuB3yO501D73q_Xt3nvi4IHEFgtCjPbBs7G7S-9raG8tck3leFZOmWntoLeLQvmy7Q9saFUDWUmhCQnBHyhFDNHi7LLlNMXAp56FdgUOrSZ0b93tmam51/s1600/DSC08217.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYf7JBeCDCLWwxDY2eRF0GCWGUuB3yO501D73q_Xt3nvi4IHEFgtCjPbBs7G7S-9raG8tck3leFZOmWntoLeLQvmy7Q9saFUDWUmhCQnBHyhFDNHi7LLlNMXAp56FdgUOrSZ0b93tmam51/s320/DSC08217.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> 4 doorways have been constructed around the structure, making the witchott look more like the long-house it will soon become.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEila7y2KjCI52Cf_rA5mQ9YvX2EcmwuFsOs20w6vZm-ZIr82V_BRvHS3j-pIzBOvBqL6me3pP5JZfk9g2UtCuTsIgeQqfXMVBpUi6Ao_ifI0Y17W0U0bhIQ-O4ajjwiKzJYE6crrS3kc_vM/s1600/DSC08248.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEila7y2KjCI52Cf_rA5mQ9YvX2EcmwuFsOs20w6vZm-ZIr82V_BRvHS3j-pIzBOvBqL6me3pP5JZfk9g2UtCuTsIgeQqfXMVBpUi6Ao_ifI0Y17W0U0bhIQ-O4ajjwiKzJYE6crrS3kc_vM/s320/DSC08248.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The team continues to finish creating the grid frame of the witchott, bending and tethering long poles aross the entire witchott.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3bmq2vdO4EGmdT5TvfDmxrhb_xIt22qImP2G_NUUDj-KPWF7_31JA0HDPGqDl8Ce7bKH21szPkpK6xhPhNzR8vuge-IarQ2T9fkuoDvHwgxYpkurlhoBaJTeUIR9drGa0fpu4f2p8Q8U/s1600/DSC08211.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3bmq2vdO4EGmdT5TvfDmxrhb_xIt22qImP2G_NUUDj-KPWF7_31JA0HDPGqDl8Ce7bKH21szPkpK6xhPhNzR8vuge-IarQ2T9fkuoDvHwgxYpkurlhoBaJTeUIR9drGa0fpu4f2p8Q8U/s320/DSC08211.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Sam and Nat negotiate the grid structure to secure all setions of the witchott's frame.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBp2F77SCbclF8Y9Y7Xe6obxMTdcFsgUXgnOpKmFPH7yykBkEjI5zTLsfuXvr25F9W0MAI5OofTEE7nV4ftFv01esPMMSoa5z6aVoJfmP5yrx1Dvtekjr5taW67BnBRSBLD2dg5G5QPzq/s1600/DSC08236.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBp2F77SCbclF8Y9Y7Xe6obxMTdcFsgUXgnOpKmFPH7yykBkEjI5zTLsfuXvr25F9W0MAI5OofTEE7nV4ftFv01esPMMSoa5z6aVoJfmP5yrx1Dvtekjr5taW67BnBRSBLD2dg5G5QPzq/s320/DSC08236.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Before tethering the poles together, the poles must be bent and pulled close together to mold the witchott into the correct shape.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiA4P26D2xjEKnXGeogK9Ghn5Rc4D-xnzMs0tAJeQUtk-pAX8w5X6Hkid937qDblvk7EaO4Hry1RRdgOn6urB2fZ89rQcG0JfPqKw5t_0ZUzQUc0L4h6xm8EmLvpOrwlR0_fmUiYwWtwQd/s1600/DSC08238.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiA4P26D2xjEKnXGeogK9Ghn5Rc4D-xnzMs0tAJeQUtk-pAX8w5X6Hkid937qDblvk7EaO4Hry1RRdgOn6urB2fZ89rQcG0JfPqKw5t_0ZUzQUc0L4h6xm8EmLvpOrwlR0_fmUiYwWtwQd/s320/DSC08238.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Through strenuous work, the witchott is finally taking shape! Follow our blog to stay updated on the progress of the Re-Construction Project as we reach our goal of building the new witchott!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6eao8iENZleQ1aZjajj1VDsyQqphv7UckhNIFlM5gh4eUBH2MlXKB8mYlQGJhjRb0VQVE1bsgpubxKlpK0Nos9D63i_fAnPkXK0UZ8hkl57Dlt-_cLyBJY2-CXMoOdbuGUGHpmKBUmmKq/s1600/DSC08246.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6eao8iENZleQ1aZjajj1VDsyQqphv7UckhNIFlM5gh4eUBH2MlXKB8mYlQGJhjRb0VQVE1bsgpubxKlpK0Nos9D63i_fAnPkXK0UZ8hkl57Dlt-_cLyBJY2-CXMoOdbuGUGHpmKBUmmKq/s320/DSC08246.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div align="center"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-68642290985343425222011-08-17T14:13:00.000-04:002011-08-17T14:13:27.705-04:00Volunteer Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On August 13th, volunteers came out to the Woodland Indian Hamlet for our final Volunteer Day. Volunteers assisted the Re-Construction Crew in various aspects of the wichott's construction throughout the day namely tethering poles of the witchott's structure and sewing mats for the witchott's exterior.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBGxeis3UgS2vrLpiBlMzSj0FRos3AB5fcX0Q5uTuZP_7wdmT5C6lilsu4T6wd4NyENTu5xPsFekbYVpZOeZfy2LojDS-XZDQ9RJ7iVBU5PvD_1KE6MIOSbEOr5Kn4t5EXDfonzoAuWLRT/s1600/DSC08074.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBGxeis3UgS2vrLpiBlMzSj0FRos3AB5fcX0Q5uTuZP_7wdmT5C6lilsu4T6wd4NyENTu5xPsFekbYVpZOeZfy2LojDS-XZDQ9RJ7iVBU5PvD_1KE6MIOSbEOr5Kn4t5EXDfonzoAuWLRT/s320/DSC08074.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The team, with the help of our volunteers, continued to apply poles across the arches of the witchott.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVlOkMNCkleOUQWIMFNv07BgcX4e4Jan51zsw-tzEedeHmn_GcvqI1waOCAoV9T_t33kNGZbIYgOgSzNKX2sup3ntmbN9LidqGghlKBT3QfwHf5IzFoK-i0vx_JYLxL94U6co7KllqssNO/s1600/DSC08085.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVlOkMNCkleOUQWIMFNv07BgcX4e4Jan51zsw-tzEedeHmn_GcvqI1waOCAoV9T_t33kNGZbIYgOgSzNKX2sup3ntmbN9LidqGghlKBT3QfwHf5IzFoK-i0vx_JYLxL94U6co7KllqssNO/s320/DSC08085.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> While several volunteers assisted Coby on site, others joined Cathy in the Visitor's Center Auditorium to sew mats.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TWqWuDQLRBSJZqY4w_9CvLx_2gVT6RVh-60HKSQEWDxHYeq1RjQSMlA3btTDfLd2OGUsFyvNHOtGOL2BxtSnSjqmQN6wfrYKTzEqRN08dnq32hKOuSchDJHmB20H28RRKgjrwBU9c0Q4/s1600/DSC08156.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TWqWuDQLRBSJZqY4w_9CvLx_2gVT6RVh-60HKSQEWDxHYeq1RjQSMlA3btTDfLd2OGUsFyvNHOtGOL2BxtSnSjqmQN6wfrYKTzEqRN08dnq32hKOuSchDJHmB20H28RRKgjrwBU9c0Q4/s320/DSC08156.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The mats sewn were synthetic phragmite mats which will cover the frame of the witchott and later will be covered with natural phragmite mats. A sheet of plastic is sandwhiched between 2 of the synthetic mats to create a waterproof cover for the witchott.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHHDb9hgsxLBA6n6Du7nMfpwiJmE6R9sbdWSjdy-hX0YQ-qklQJYoZDom8Oy1fuT7inliWgLQbiNltrdGv_ixdZZHSfM7phuvBXEH6A9uKjVKPmV7DSGA4DTfxf40ptDO9oVrMHQOr2oVG/s1600/DSC08126.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHHDb9hgsxLBA6n6Du7nMfpwiJmE6R9sbdWSjdy-hX0YQ-qklQJYoZDom8Oy1fuT7inliWgLQbiNltrdGv_ixdZZHSfM7phuvBXEH6A9uKjVKPmV7DSGA4DTfxf40ptDO9oVrMHQOr2oVG/s320/DSC08126.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Once the structure of the witchott is completed, the team will attach the phragmite mats to the exterior.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4MH1tiwqYO_WesvoWnZNuB4g33CEH9oV5YzRaPiYXhKwD76o5GXdrSsxeZpfwPH6hdkPuRql1wNOTtkwGoAFkQ-jCm4nnrtUnAaDaepbEZgyXO7Wust_vr_jdT2eTztPP1njgAsNdpm7O/s1600/DSC08196.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4MH1tiwqYO_WesvoWnZNuB4g33CEH9oV5YzRaPiYXhKwD76o5GXdrSsxeZpfwPH6hdkPuRql1wNOTtkwGoAFkQ-jCm4nnrtUnAaDaepbEZgyXO7Wust_vr_jdT2eTztPP1njgAsNdpm7O/s320/DSC08196.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-50759458720907390252011-08-17T12:49:00.000-04:002011-08-17T12:49:18.168-04:00The Final Steps in Forming the Frame<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgapQoNNpxiPQ_NI9K71po7cwz1tqF2afCD-lPCXx6kRZiOa2V2t1vPBkxZDVz3Y9EeHn8hCx7JpJK75qalDw8Fkew8N5wrH_gKJGkA-mWTX0s0QeU4ILe72_lJr10M2DKZv7sCqkfy6Vg/s1600/DSC08014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgapQoNNpxiPQ_NI9K71po7cwz1tqF2afCD-lPCXx6kRZiOa2V2t1vPBkxZDVz3Y9EeHn8hCx7JpJK75qalDw8Fkew8N5wrH_gKJGkA-mWTX0s0QeU4ILe72_lJr10M2DKZv7sCqkfy6Vg/s320/DSC08014.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Having started applying horizontal poles on each side of the witchott, the team decided to tether the tops of the arches to 2 long sapling poles. This will ensure a perfect allignment of the arches before the other horizontal poles are added, fixing the form of the witchott's frame.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhWSjGF4oJ9Y5wxddNy8mdgyhS1M4BChUha-WjiF3UizU4Q6vn4tbzucXciwoaf8MW2clbPvi_qQAz5iDaJ1AEtdznNeHS56Z3JdYNOwP-otkiDHn0_yu2g26ogFVNK6MGZ0-geym8rLw/s1600/DSC08021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhWSjGF4oJ9Y5wxddNy8mdgyhS1M4BChUha-WjiF3UizU4Q6vn4tbzucXciwoaf8MW2clbPvi_qQAz5iDaJ1AEtdznNeHS56Z3JdYNOwP-otkiDHn0_yu2g26ogFVNK6MGZ0-geym8rLw/s320/DSC08021.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> To create a structurally sound frame, the arches must be perfectly alligned. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB0APnaX-6DyYq2e_wuFsXYfY2VdVmlXcaQMB6rP5__DloqSkL6U3GMsNe_V36juy7c2fvHHrLguDL6bckMmA7-S2rBxU5L_m-Kc1DktW-mpQWjmNE7LR8BWxPcwXvGlyKF3Rdltf2zla7/s1600/DSC08036.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB0APnaX-6DyYq2e_wuFsXYfY2VdVmlXcaQMB6rP5__DloqSkL6U3GMsNe_V36juy7c2fvHHrLguDL6bckMmA7-S2rBxU5L_m-Kc1DktW-mpQWjmNE7LR8BWxPcwXvGlyKF3Rdltf2zla7/s320/DSC08036.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The team bends the arches toward the top pole, tethering them together to perfect the arches' placement and slope.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirQ9Yoefeel8s4m09wygvqfFV-YYnESAxL5iuTv2vduxpQ8c1XLrtQIiM8A_c4lO24JSZTvt5357mvMqqMIQJ2tX5szO-inM_jeOdUP39mRm91n_QrqB8hkPDAowO9pdzeIui8K_VpaZdq/s1600/DSC08042.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirQ9Yoefeel8s4m09wygvqfFV-YYnESAxL5iuTv2vduxpQ8c1XLrtQIiM8A_c4lO24JSZTvt5357mvMqqMIQJ2tX5szO-inM_jeOdUP39mRm91n_QrqB8hkPDAowO9pdzeIui8K_VpaZdq/s320/DSC08042.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilYDOqDxElDSIs6RVaH_LB6ku7VLwMXHvjlnXg-cJULYfql2XoSXTCSXi87V-tr0tFTn8liCiyxu1ROL_Qaonzlsh_fvFmf4jNM3YJBPg-zqeKhRklylaAqS7gJRxst3jPhqNP4W-WhV2/s1600/DSC08046.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilYDOqDxElDSIs6RVaH_LB6ku7VLwMXHvjlnXg-cJULYfql2XoSXTCSXi87V-tr0tFTn8liCiyxu1ROL_Qaonzlsh_fvFmf4jNM3YJBPg-zqeKhRklylaAqS7gJRxst3jPhqNP4W-WhV2/s320/DSC08046.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Now that the basic structure of the witchott has been formed, the witchott can begin to take shape!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_FUXOy0zj5PzU1j5hpPbKiK2nTlf-gfcEGQpkaVI6cZNfKbzXDGn7cUIL9y245TrOng4OKNeSvVimLKqQ8nyXS4byk7DWDYjkVxYo_Wx-K-YHcik4_Wrju-1HxnLQR6eFq6MKJZJtSEek/s1600/DSC08044.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_FUXOy0zj5PzU1j5hpPbKiK2nTlf-gfcEGQpkaVI6cZNfKbzXDGn7cUIL9y245TrOng4OKNeSvVimLKqQ8nyXS4byk7DWDYjkVxYo_Wx-K-YHcik4_Wrju-1HxnLQR6eFq6MKJZJtSEek/s320/DSC08044.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-43469725492049033652011-08-17T12:38:00.000-04:002011-08-17T12:38:05.355-04:00Taking Shape<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKIDW3u_L7L3egyebFUAMRfIl9F9Pd07Vb0Qn88QbYNGxsj5thCyiZrVnG1DygpYVOCpo_cHSxWN07qE_nRoaMHBmi3bTNBe82t5JCXcYccS0-tgpb6A4V2LGZV-qW76HKbYgKdDg04ItQ/s1600/DSC07952.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKIDW3u_L7L3egyebFUAMRfIl9F9Pd07Vb0Qn88QbYNGxsj5thCyiZrVnG1DygpYVOCpo_cHSxWN07qE_nRoaMHBmi3bTNBe82t5JCXcYccS0-tgpb6A4V2LGZV-qW76HKbYgKdDg04ItQ/s320/DSC07952.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Once the arches had been fixed and re-positioned, the team began adding horizontal poles spanning the sides of the witchott.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixjHjvb-P8jpzm1yDEkwIvUta9yNadV0AqEpGhzRK7kMZBytxN1D969cXzsK6EbduMqT9gJ2R81x6d6hLQQheqCdlSv0vT4J4QBWDu5lm1ELOChKQdFe7nz2cmBk9Hu0oKRUUHdlRbMIE5/s1600/DSC07971.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixjHjvb-P8jpzm1yDEkwIvUta9yNadV0AqEpGhzRK7kMZBytxN1D969cXzsK6EbduMqT9gJ2R81x6d6hLQQheqCdlSv0vT4J4QBWDu5lm1ELOChKQdFe7nz2cmBk9Hu0oKRUUHdlRbMIE5/s320/DSC07971.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Coby and his crew carefully calculated the positions of the horizontal poles and how to apply them to the existing structure.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqONmjwSuSDDkXcA6vUIujulQr45kFfbrJWuhnheDo7PoYreksFHYYgwRTWsgXflWSygqNAoqFPyt8wE8amsTSyGbcqHg8iDPloa7szg1tMtXbBeK6OSiS-zc4OsyqLZogeXETM1ifGK-s/s1600/DSC07961.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqONmjwSuSDDkXcA6vUIujulQr45kFfbrJWuhnheDo7PoYreksFHYYgwRTWsgXflWSygqNAoqFPyt8wE8amsTSyGbcqHg8iDPloa7szg1tMtXbBeK6OSiS-zc4OsyqLZogeXETM1ifGK-s/s320/DSC07961.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The long sapling poles were tethered tightly to the vertical poles of the arches straightening and correcting the allignment of the arches.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKPN7I5bqLoweHJ06c4-iIfyVCbKevbpldbpLU4uKyYrfeva5DLPUnGdRjjVd03XHqmeeC1uRw49Nl-n6WziL5nf7_rzjZF7DLub53m_DP789pqpdyJ63yYagilIWr4UHit0SiPE48fmar/s1600/DSC07973.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKPN7I5bqLoweHJ06c4-iIfyVCbKevbpldbpLU4uKyYrfeva5DLPUnGdRjjVd03XHqmeeC1uRw49Nl-n6WziL5nf7_rzjZF7DLub53m_DP789pqpdyJ63yYagilIWr4UHit0SiPE48fmar/s320/DSC07973.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> To ensure a sturdy structure, the crew used 2 sapling poles for each foot, creating a grid pattern frame.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZONWu-fRPaDFFaTaQECAZ11DzQbp3OXs-jNsrpiJ-ssyEyFW6zX5zSD-izKTHaemqO3jVY4xDpJrDd3r6ufT7hf848t0GHSIJyeG6B4wnePUW2rVOhc0P0dw_zNtZ9LuibjFRVEXOiLd/s1600/DSC07981.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZONWu-fRPaDFFaTaQECAZ11DzQbp3OXs-jNsrpiJ-ssyEyFW6zX5zSD-izKTHaemqO3jVY4xDpJrDd3r6ufT7hf848t0GHSIJyeG6B4wnePUW2rVOhc0P0dw_zNtZ9LuibjFRVEXOiLd/s320/DSC07981.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div align="center">Interns Chris and Nat test the sturdiness of the frame. Once the frame is finished, contruction can begin on the interior and exterior of the witchott.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-83560417535369373422011-08-17T11:18:00.000-04:002011-08-17T11:18:09.838-04:00The Great Arch Experiment Part 2<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnJY0qn9fwALNHJmTQyUtytTc-uMW0DmbY24nzARKaZZoe8C6wFsKmbdjBrTyh3X4fLWGjqb6uRqxHW402ByxHf9CD2rspNjy63SUfmuM66t9lT_voagYJdRpcF2Pm0dhUTw9TheDGpiso/s1600/DSC07514.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnJY0qn9fwALNHJmTQyUtytTc-uMW0DmbY24nzARKaZZoe8C6wFsKmbdjBrTyh3X4fLWGjqb6uRqxHW402ByxHf9CD2rspNjy63SUfmuM66t9lT_voagYJdRpcF2Pm0dhUTw9TheDGpiso/s320/DSC07514.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Following our first Volunteer Day at the Woodland Indian Hamlet at HSMC, the arches of the witchott's structure were erected. However, due to some initial miscalculations the arches refused to form the even slope the structure required. Coby and his team removed each arch from the foundation to correct their respective heights.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTRynu6mCyGByRWYW955NYowmQIHghfKMIYzz5DxtIuE0g82hA0_XJOSMHFFf4poDFd1nC5KxCaOv2q4F5F06ubflUSjvlWKUxAvK067CHz2Qy1NrBxA4EOu9f-lFDYSDlPx6srZWleb5Q/s1600/DSC07537.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTRynu6mCyGByRWYW955NYowmQIHghfKMIYzz5DxtIuE0g82hA0_XJOSMHFFf4poDFd1nC5KxCaOv2q4F5F06ubflUSjvlWKUxAvK067CHz2Qy1NrBxA4EOu9f-lFDYSDlPx6srZWleb5Q/s320/DSC07537.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Having packed the dirt and clay of the foundation to ensure the stability of the arches, each pole had to be removed individually and carefully so as not to damage the arches or foundation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGjtbxNS7JuwY4E1j2NdKzX-FTo9LIiK6SD8HwiWIlDdukjUrE3iCKt4yFbfUq2mPDhjMonfLpPZAcC11Xg9e7rZlo9blyBKdt9m6F7yn5-rTbuY367CCa99Mh1gf7I2n1LY13mnSVeom/s1600/DSC07541.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGjtbxNS7JuwY4E1j2NdKzX-FTo9LIiK6SD8HwiWIlDdukjUrE3iCKt4yFbfUq2mPDhjMonfLpPZAcC11Xg9e7rZlo9blyBKdt9m6F7yn5-rTbuY367CCa99Mh1gf7I2n1LY13mnSVeom/s320/DSC07541.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">**The museum is also accepting donations of cedar trees between 2 1/4" and 5 1/4" in diameter and 18' to 30' in length as well as deer pelts**</div><div style="text-align: center;">Contact Coby Treadway at 240-895-4992 or <a href="mailto:cjtreadway@smcm.edu">cjtreadway@smcm.edu</a> if you have materials to share.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-41893764658018621972011-07-14T12:48:00.001-04:002011-07-14T12:49:33.927-04:00Woodland Indian Hamlet Volunteer Day!On Saturday July 9, 2011 a number of volunteers came out to the Woodland Indian Hamlet at Historic St. Mary's City to assist in the witchott re-construction effort.<br />
Coby and his team welcomed the additional help of the ten motivated volunteers as the construction of the witchott could finally begin. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coby explains the construction of the witchott to volunteers and visitors using a model</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Volunteers and the re-construction crew worked together to remove the arches from the frame and carry them to the site.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deputy Director Jennifer Legates works along side the re-construction crew and volunteers</td></tr>
</tbody></table> With hatchets, knives, and blades in hand, volunteers get to work preparing a pile of saplings.<br />
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Historic St. Mary's City and the Witchott Re-construction Crew would like to thank volunteers Lee Magnuson, Keith Perkins, David Rotman, Barbara Disenbacher, Bill Rush, Billy Rush, Carolyn Corbin, Regina Faden, Jennifer Legates, and Anne Forest for all their hard work.<br />
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Our next Woodland Indian Hamlet Volunteer Day will take place July 23, 2011. Come out and take part in the Re-construction Project!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-37303740635850209282011-07-14T11:03:00.001-04:002011-08-18T14:11:37.603-04:00The Arch ExperimentIn order to create the sloping arched structure of the witchott, Coby and his team experimented with various techniques to bend the cedar poles. The witchott's frame must be able to withstand time and the elements as well as vistor traffic and the weight of the phragmite mats which will cover the outside of the house. Therefore, the poles must be carefully and precisely arched. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JQisXyGU9Vic7ckSf5MW9EwJvImUpe74TGB5buAc-DxsawdETrN07sYBrk3u2rtfRFV-6k5BH158JEf188K2hfgXh98b-GKuAxMJ9SAxkr7Z-puCerI-7IXoCJlZxi2d5Ucfgo_aHJCf/s1600/DSC07176.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JQisXyGU9Vic7ckSf5MW9EwJvImUpe74TGB5buAc-DxsawdETrN07sYBrk3u2rtfRFV-6k5BH158JEf188K2hfgXh98b-GKuAxMJ9SAxkr7Z-puCerI-7IXoCJlZxi2d5Ucfgo_aHJCf/s400/DSC07176.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWIXKRAG7yviBnlvMJVC1Xd5CzW5S57NapkAz1i_hGdSl-c7tpVjJqDYt6g1ZpHCtJIJ8aUznSPX9ZQ6jpcGgwxb6U8giUPGad4XDUwsua_ehrVepNJZvTeigSHeKwTgaSFjVKBXIRVjno/s1600/DSC07185.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWIXKRAG7yviBnlvMJVC1Xd5CzW5S57NapkAz1i_hGdSl-c7tpVjJqDYt6g1ZpHCtJIJ8aUznSPX9ZQ6jpcGgwxb6U8giUPGad4XDUwsua_ehrVepNJZvTeigSHeKwTgaSFjVKBXIRVjno/s400/DSC07185.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Each arch consists of two poles meeting at the top. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCtwvloFnuSOxUsv6HRa1Ai0mE-c8gSu0TiroONcMGb07sILDWfHQw_Mpgwzj_zFM-l3fG19fqa5dRsMaAGtikuOi3-LEXYjmWysHUt7pIY5e9rml5uWg8yost763t4sJU_BcKuJnFTOuf/s1600/DSC07193.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCtwvloFnuSOxUsv6HRa1Ai0mE-c8gSu0TiroONcMGb07sILDWfHQw_Mpgwzj_zFM-l3fG19fqa5dRsMaAGtikuOi3-LEXYjmWysHUt7pIY5e9rml5uWg8yost763t4sJU_BcKuJnFTOuf/s400/DSC07193.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> The crew carefully bends the two poles toward eachother so as not to fracture the saplings.<br />
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Once enough saplings are collected and stripped, the ends of the poles are burned to further protect the foundation of the structure from deterioration. The next step for Coby and his team will be to experiment with different ways to bend the poles into arches for the outermost structure of the witchott.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7uIM2NqhOwEAd-PUMIKgFTwehb03uoImdD9cuihketa04H1wW4e0A3y6_stKmfDPSRzj9s_7-Xit72J0rOvyRmwQ8UCOR9fxRaX87MFS04LjdhHnJvbZ0LYhyphenhyphen1kQKJBT92Uj6a6gCCPlN/s1600/DSC07274.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7uIM2NqhOwEAd-PUMIKgFTwehb03uoImdD9cuihketa04H1wW4e0A3y6_stKmfDPSRzj9s_7-Xit72J0rOvyRmwQ8UCOR9fxRaX87MFS04LjdhHnJvbZ0LYhyphenhyphen1kQKJBT92Uj6a6gCCPlN/s400/DSC07274.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-35808576350594607772011-07-13T13:01:00.000-04:002011-07-13T13:01:57.922-04:00Building from the Ground Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RlJUpO94pMRdDW-g80CDwHHPYc7s6dBrTkKq0MK7iGd21wJLLAviG26jhPgn1Ptl1TxeTF-uU72h_zFrE2Vfya4nVcuMFtvgGueq3mQ1LGEOfzMqwqO9HQaAfb97_HJ_ThyphenhyphenfbpZdiBKB/s1600/DSC07024.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RlJUpO94pMRdDW-g80CDwHHPYc7s6dBrTkKq0MK7iGd21wJLLAviG26jhPgn1Ptl1TxeTF-uU72h_zFrE2Vfya4nVcuMFtvgGueq3mQ1LGEOfzMqwqO9HQaAfb97_HJ_ThyphenhyphenfbpZdiBKB/s400/DSC07024.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Now that the foundation is layed, the Re-Construction crew begin to mark the arrangement of the structure's poles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDb8N2DHeBAXMjBi2c4kgzIpCaC7s_NLCiEPD04woAjakN1UztRQNWKJj4KIJMlwtrmje6JZiDj7_QNH7yDtzDKLQ0jKi9Vf4EWEQxPH2xnIYCg3mIQDiS6jCcSlK8hlHDnf9nmRXLovfo/s1600/DSC07022.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDb8N2DHeBAXMjBi2c4kgzIpCaC7s_NLCiEPD04woAjakN1UztRQNWKJj4KIJMlwtrmje6JZiDj7_QNH7yDtzDKLQ0jKi9Vf4EWEQxPH2xnIYCg3mIQDiS6jCcSlK8hlHDnf9nmRXLovfo/s400/DSC07022.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Stakes are driven into the foundation, indicating where the cedar beams of the new witchott will be positioned. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgab7I51gbce4v2U7TujeTy0KXvXcb5qcAXgATTzej5owZF7qoyKZrRaTm-aRyU4oacr6IiI4bbbOWejDQHUoNVZPBKdVQcvf6MXpFxcbMe-4dNcBt5022hqFON-z2n8R2BShMeXt2GNcxj/s1600/DSC07137.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgab7I51gbce4v2U7TujeTy0KXvXcb5qcAXgATTzej5owZF7qoyKZrRaTm-aRyU4oacr6IiI4bbbOWejDQHUoNVZPBKdVQcvf6MXpFxcbMe-4dNcBt5022hqFON-z2n8R2BShMeXt2GNcxj/s400/DSC07137.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The outermost poles will be tethered together forming broad arches to compose the frame of the witchott. To support the weight and pressure of the heavy cedar beams as well as keep the poles in place, the crew installs pvc piping roughly 1 foot into the foundation. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4IXGa6jtQlsrnJhTRCq_Qc7QnP7FfndVUyN7aeqmRdl0cpDiZHSr752m4FYhkJeNHVuDiczsHQEEChQ19PZwadVUFh47YCtdl0tNA5n8Eb930DCOdBNDhU41OJwWeBqlA3K0z9VGMVqEs/s1600/DSC07143.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4IXGa6jtQlsrnJhTRCq_Qc7QnP7FfndVUyN7aeqmRdl0cpDiZHSr752m4FYhkJeNHVuDiczsHQEEChQ19PZwadVUFh47YCtdl0tNA5n8Eb930DCOdBNDhU41OJwWeBqlA3K0z9VGMVqEs/s400/DSC07143.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The site now ready for the crew to begin building!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SuXmQEx1ZoQZeAqorrWvRbs4fnaDPdfZr8e0ys6RmqxIiRQswKp8TiXPAZiJWzS3bgZ_bdILq-Mti5-MzY80VCFKeAfKuGW_DG9IsMB-4dc0oY5dHolNGkt61eEkUgd6NTsvhFdPhl0d/s1600/DSC07140.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SuXmQEx1ZoQZeAqorrWvRbs4fnaDPdfZr8e0ys6RmqxIiRQswKp8TiXPAZiJWzS3bgZ_bdILq-Mti5-MzY80VCFKeAfKuGW_DG9IsMB-4dc0oY5dHolNGkt61eEkUgd6NTsvhFdPhl0d/s400/DSC07140.JPG" width="341" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-60256714062068114522011-07-13T12:24:00.001-04:002011-07-13T12:31:23.859-04:00Laying the Foundation<div style="text-align: center;">Now that the site has been cleared, the crew gets to work setting the foundation for the new witchott.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdFg2-eo1wtVIQ_niAa063p0pUxhcrhdjDVP53hzzDWlS_Q5ejib_kIRsZpmpTBENjONzIV_-nw3juy98Da8CpF6CXfh3ZelfLoj9W0p61Czf9Hzxdk8UEkR5UgwU8-sX3Z_vuwBZI1EGY/s1600/DSC06936.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdFg2-eo1wtVIQ_niAa063p0pUxhcrhdjDVP53hzzDWlS_Q5ejib_kIRsZpmpTBENjONzIV_-nw3juy98Da8CpF6CXfh3ZelfLoj9W0p61Czf9Hzxdk8UEkR5UgwU8-sX3Z_vuwBZI1EGY/s400/DSC06936.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The foundation of the current witchott was constructed with concrete so as to withstand the traffic of visitors to the site. Concrete, however, proved to be less beneficial over time than previously expected. The concrete trapped rain water under the witchott's foundation, causing the structure to now become unstable from decay.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The new witchott, instead, will rest on a foundation of packed clay which will allow rain water to filter out naturally and protect the structure from damage and exposure. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYw283JhRQ5AsUpFNcOAMrvA9upx7sQZhwZsGh4BcyBoECL-bcGy0inpDsoLitn5vcev1V8jqs3WtsFH53cxX81rmm91AVCDLsUzaHYHtli7i1B_KDRWgsUTZ4qI7j11J8HQVBM-CufQpI/s1600/Ernie+Stone+leveling+w+tractor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYw283JhRQ5AsUpFNcOAMrvA9upx7sQZhwZsGh4BcyBoECL-bcGy0inpDsoLitn5vcev1V8jqs3WtsFH53cxX81rmm91AVCDLsUzaHYHtli7i1B_KDRWgsUTZ4qI7j11J8HQVBM-CufQpI/s400/Ernie+Stone+leveling+w+tractor.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (feat. Ernie Stones leveling with the tractor phot courtesy of Sean Kerchner)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Before the clay is added, the crew spreads a layer of gravel over the site to create a sturdy foundation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3C0hdrAylOlOtk_KeG_g9iK3XLQyB06ZaX6TGYibIuiX1u0MPn0ksot_FDwId0Y0nWrRqyxixHFRE7yRYAYm4BIS2ISsYS5pV9KtidEaAUjtPQy8TF_oTCkJbNXkY4L9wlOulI3QOIMSx/s1600/Corey+savage+spreading+gravel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3C0hdrAylOlOtk_KeG_g9iK3XLQyB06ZaX6TGYibIuiX1u0MPn0ksot_FDwId0Y0nWrRqyxixHFRE7yRYAYm4BIS2ISsYS5pV9KtidEaAUjtPQy8TF_oTCkJbNXkY4L9wlOulI3QOIMSx/s400/Corey+savage+spreading+gravel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (feat. Corey Savage. photo courtesy of Sean Kerchner)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_PfLdxwWcfOqv0Oy2A8M_AaoW8hTZZCpfrmfvnjHLnXGVNZzbZaPLGIbjFtZ_SHGjdgv0fEpzrcZP-JvO2OHNPwqoMmCGoyWGCxBX6_UTLH7Tcuchyphenhyphen9o9oD7PSJy_1YYMv3dWwWsYoM10/s1600/Steve+Blank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_PfLdxwWcfOqv0Oy2A8M_AaoW8hTZZCpfrmfvnjHLnXGVNZzbZaPLGIbjFtZ_SHGjdgv0fEpzrcZP-JvO2OHNPwqoMmCGoyWGCxBX6_UTLH7Tcuchyphenhyphen9o9oD7PSJy_1YYMv3dWwWsYoM10/s400/Steve+Blank.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(feat. Steve Blank photo courtesy of Sean Kerchner)</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">A plastic tarp is layed over the foundation to contain the freshly-layed gravel before the clay is added. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQXRaHQ7kca25_oUIeWCg6OdE4yor-NfjJ7XCN4oTuM7VgBhJjluOztDNWcuGT2D81uH8eGVKmUyD2ycz39okurJQUMBzkUM2JQAGw2y2f36oZqixg6z2ksR4mlK0d6EXXOTC7VUY9Vzj/s1600/DSC06946.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQXRaHQ7kca25_oUIeWCg6OdE4yor-NfjJ7XCN4oTuM7VgBhJjluOztDNWcuGT2D81uH8eGVKmUyD2ycz39okurJQUMBzkUM2JQAGw2y2f36oZqixg6z2ksR4mlK0d6EXXOTC7VUY9Vzj/s320/DSC06946.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Using the posts previously implanted to mark the dimensions of the foundation, the tractor plows through the unsteady overgrowth to create an even foundation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0prqgsDyC3LSqf8lPr6C58P8-QA-UjgJGN9cOJMjTINbLv5Xu8WtxEO5XM0OOxboHExKQ-w_J8bgN5Y1hE3EBSjB72Ww94-U_i2P8rNY-WOansCmj3fyHUKfbgGA9O13lmDjKHHN_k_XJ/s1600/DSC06965.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0prqgsDyC3LSqf8lPr6C58P8-QA-UjgJGN9cOJMjTINbLv5Xu8WtxEO5XM0OOxboHExKQ-w_J8bgN5Y1hE3EBSjB72Ww94-U_i2P8rNY-WOansCmj3fyHUKfbgGA9O13lmDjKHHN_k_XJ/s400/DSC06965.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> To protect the structure of the witchott, the foundation must be level. The crew continues to clear the site to ensure a level foundation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnfhCK5KUdCuQLidd4gp2uaEF4xr3ATjv80zySfjuWBXZdYVrf6G-_O5MW0nkJ1czIKH2qogauv6dMp974kkXEDT56cM7NFDLkWrqEGg-FgXkRmeLlIrGOekwCMqbMdPc3CYgwV4Tna6F/s1600/DSC06956.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnfhCK5KUdCuQLidd4gp2uaEF4xr3ATjv80zySfjuWBXZdYVrf6G-_O5MW0nkJ1czIKH2qogauv6dMp974kkXEDT56cM7NFDLkWrqEGg-FgXkRmeLlIrGOekwCMqbMdPc3CYgwV4Tna6F/s400/DSC06956.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRrCvd4q-tDntexzmRD-8-dfmo6oLmfHgw67rp7JaNeDhRJHnqKvVhjbjrhTTfvsj4CbfsjlE1hKmCoyNA09Iv3xnTwrYAzNhSAgrWVKDCSiaHVzSNSR3qmehG5igXhv5xsdfM_9d4Gdql/s1600/DSC06952.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRrCvd4q-tDntexzmRD-8-dfmo6oLmfHgw67rp7JaNeDhRJHnqKvVhjbjrhTTfvsj4CbfsjlE1hKmCoyNA09Iv3xnTwrYAzNhSAgrWVKDCSiaHVzSNSR3qmehG5igXhv5xsdfM_9d4Gdql/s400/DSC06952.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Once the site is cleared and the foundation is prepared, Coby and his crew can continue to lay the floor of the witchott for construction.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTilNJxoElFkBfQGnhik8PQGsQ5T0kGFSPKkdZyTEZiTF7iMJcAfydi-Hyog7DVp7UjiFCRajDUyM6B5iLHDg69awpVvqDHezZIlrEMr8yAdanwb4VH4p2TwJ0SJVWmgagL5QX42_iVdK7/s1600/DSC06963.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTilNJxoElFkBfQGnhik8PQGsQ5T0kGFSPKkdZyTEZiTF7iMJcAfydi-Hyog7DVp7UjiFCRajDUyM6B5iLHDg69awpVvqDHezZIlrEMr8yAdanwb4VH4p2TwJ0SJVWmgagL5QX42_iVdK7/s400/DSC06963.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-20895377135865161462011-07-13T10:46:00.003-04:002011-07-13T12:36:00.628-04:00The First Steps of the Witchott Re-Construction Project<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On May 24, Hamlet site supervisor, Coby Treadway, assisted by Sam Pratt took to the field before the site opened for visitors to mark the dimensions of the new witchott.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgomTptxdUfdhPYoam4RqcmqFGMHIRNkKKpUifhiYitxHeha6fo_U5pq4qXRZbVH85jVXhxp6MT5nm5Qv6GHVVnyoeHrKxlKdgSVCZvr0Szcvb9sL0CLLrRpI2UFO_5gEZVh8hy2bcxnR_U/s1600/DSC06909.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgomTptxdUfdhPYoam4RqcmqFGMHIRNkKKpUifhiYitxHeha6fo_U5pq4qXRZbVH85jVXhxp6MT5nm5Qv6GHVVnyoeHrKxlKdgSVCZvr0Szcvb9sL0CLLrRpI2UFO_5gEZVh8hy2bcxnR_U/s400/DSC06909.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(fore. 5 sticks marking the circumference of the new witchott; back. Current witchott)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3AZhPBS7NxDb0BiUIP158Sptk5LYXpyaMyqYCIWXoX5Q0fXTbmHjOCh0MFnfQrpaIKw4mVYxMmfIbWcVRjX9ZrE_az9ifyNZDqjwPcvpVfFzQ2V9Qx2ZO9JRjItPYaATSnMmSHwAupYHT/s1600/DSC06903.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3AZhPBS7NxDb0BiUIP158Sptk5LYXpyaMyqYCIWXoX5Q0fXTbmHjOCh0MFnfQrpaIKw4mVYxMmfIbWcVRjX9ZrE_az9ifyNZDqjwPcvpVfFzQ2V9Qx2ZO9JRjItPYaATSnMmSHwAupYHT/s400/DSC06903.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(Coby uses a machete to cut the sticks down to size before marking the foundation)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Coby and Sam use long sticks to mark the circumference of the witchott using their feet and best judgment to measure the distance between the poles. They will later use standard measuring equipment to verify the measurements. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBs_x-M4v4thDjQYnS3ukHEZ0FnudNztaEz6c8_0HK7M17g4SSHigE8sZr2sAf263UBoZfScifUN1LTtVwEv79xfrBZfDZfkm-SOsR0ikMvr9j5MynZxJVeGaU8YsYDrX0HHzYwfSSq-hc/s1600/DSC06906.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBs_x-M4v4thDjQYnS3ukHEZ0FnudNztaEz6c8_0HK7M17g4SSHigE8sZr2sAf263UBoZfScifUN1LTtVwEv79xfrBZfDZfkm-SOsR0ikMvr9j5MynZxJVeGaU8YsYDrX0HHzYwfSSq-hc/s320/DSC06906.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcjp5ZEdSNVw75MbdGVVZp_1yFF0hqNHKoJBH_cHovS_ASc0eSaarpakrCip_JM5EoHcc273u-bw-eNTl8ScsQzOrPtu8iop2qNA5CChEZxcJg7iKlf6RNG-XRMhQZsnOFY5t_6R2kqazy/s1600/DSC06901.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcjp5ZEdSNVw75MbdGVVZp_1yFF0hqNHKoJBH_cHovS_ASc0eSaarpakrCip_JM5EoHcc273u-bw-eNTl8ScsQzOrPtu8iop2qNA5CChEZxcJg7iKlf6RNG-XRMhQZsnOFY5t_6R2kqazy/s320/DSC06901.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Coby and Sam planted 5 sticks to mark the basic dimensions for the witchott to define the area that will become the foundation. Once the foundation is laid, Coby and his team will use a hand drawn blue print to assist them in placing 60 poles around the site to create the frame of the longhouse as well as 33 interior poles to construct the basic layout of the witchott.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhANeNBUNo_Iddk3ljDmK8bacznJMmzpwKuc7op0O2nhD9nufLDfhdGG15d87v6RdeTCNjNl9aIPBjLSQYNM8J3ko7NIqx0pH63Bi8SoP7edjVD7joninHuNhIB5THifp1PnYtOwhr0LP-p/s1600/img014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="261" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhANeNBUNo_Iddk3ljDmK8bacznJMmzpwKuc7op0O2nhD9nufLDfhdGG15d87v6RdeTCNjNl9aIPBjLSQYNM8J3ko7NIqx0pH63Bi8SoP7edjVD7joninHuNhIB5THifp1PnYtOwhr0LP-p/s400/img014.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Coby and Sam confirm the initial measurements to prepare the site for excavation and the laying of the foundation. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF86eZ4iPxiv5pTzp59nXXs6fVc0ZOdL8djbd3hTUYm0N2Yp6yz-x8uV4GdyqFw-Vpj_qWMU7kZeGmWb0-Q31EHVeoVFQ6tB5UPjWvbCWvtZkhshYjI88Y2dKvLZ-PqLIRQwKOzqSRXzIa/s1600/DSC06933.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF86eZ4iPxiv5pTzp59nXXs6fVc0ZOdL8djbd3hTUYm0N2Yp6yz-x8uV4GdyqFw-Vpj_qWMU7kZeGmWb0-Q31EHVeoVFQ6tB5UPjWvbCWvtZkhshYjI88Y2dKvLZ-PqLIRQwKOzqSRXzIa/s400/DSC06933.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The first markings have been made for the new witchott! </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Follow along and watch every step of the re-construction process unfold!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk6BTPj17gHqnj_Ovfm0AjDFykEcXLbHh2Lzw8RUX8YzXU7U2jYPp5mobxuuXoEB-2oKwNS7UqNSdhOnjmNuEMJXwxRToQpXNs-w_ApaEm4UziwrNSQKqaBGM4n8g_eHw5L-OPCzPDAWDy/s1600/DSC06905.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk6BTPj17gHqnj_Ovfm0AjDFykEcXLbHh2Lzw8RUX8YzXU7U2jYPp5mobxuuXoEB-2oKwNS7UqNSdhOnjmNuEMJXwxRToQpXNs-w_ApaEm4UziwrNSQKqaBGM4n8g_eHw5L-OPCzPDAWDy/s400/DSC06905.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-29380464186117856312011-06-30T13:46:00.001-04:002011-06-30T14:03:08.645-04:00The Founding of St. Mary’s City: The Colonists and the Yaocomaco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifaboeAfYQwiXIAiDPWIs5Q-p2Wg1Y8qu9543wgTmo-J63WF9xvsCGxtB3BPEGhn9sypp0u67DM4iKdx8iDz_ls96ehIEiemp9d62j45ZrrzH0saWEX39ntbrvTgtg4pQgEpKZXun_vle5/s1600/hamlet+engraving+by+Theodor+de+Bry+1590.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifaboeAfYQwiXIAiDPWIs5Q-p2Wg1Y8qu9543wgTmo-J63WF9xvsCGxtB3BPEGhn9sypp0u67DM4iKdx8iDz_ls96ehIEiemp9d62j45ZrrzH0saWEX39ntbrvTgtg4pQgEpKZXun_vle5/s400/hamlet+engraving+by+Theodor+de+Bry+1590.gif" width="374" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At the time of the colonists’ arrival to what is now St. Mary’s City in 1634, the Yaocomaco were reportedly in the process of relocating North due to Susquehannock raids in the village. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">According to Father Andrew White, the Yaocomaco “had the yeere before our arrivall there, made a resolution, for their safety, to remove themselves higher into the Countrey where it was more populous, and many of them were gone thither before the English arrived” (Hall 1925:74) (Clash of Cultures 189). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Reportedly, the Yaocomaco “readily received the English, freely giving their houses to the colonists” (Cissna 1986:133). The Woodland Indian Hamlet at Historic St. Mary’s City depicts how St. Mary’s City would have looked within the first 9 months of the English colonists’ settlement during which time the colonists lived among the remaining Yaocomaco, inhabiting abandoned witchotts. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjolP4QmSYVkty0RGl-P3jnkni2EiqYaZtO0XuAMAIH352irXmO9jv6ORJgYHBFJp6qvzZcuR_Ebc6i4Ef_4R43iCq7VVCg1ZOfDbeBamRaLxHfif3pJbIR55tcEgEsgDcv-nwXS5-WSywD/s1600/DSC06888.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjolP4QmSYVkty0RGl-P3jnkni2EiqYaZtO0XuAMAIH352irXmO9jv6ORJgYHBFJp6qvzZcuR_Ebc6i4Ef_4R43iCq7VVCg1ZOfDbeBamRaLxHfif3pJbIR55tcEgEsgDcv-nwXS5-WSywD/s400/DSC06888.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Inviting the 200 colonists to assume the land they had called home, the Yaocomaco shared their culture and lifestyle with the English settlers, providing them with guidance in self-reliance to survive in the Southern Maryland climate. The two co-existing groups exchanged various aspects of their respective material culture out of necessity and convenience, though both continued to adhere to tradition rather than assimilate.† </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The similar but different ways of life of the colonists and the Yaocomaco are represented in the two witchotts in the Woodland Indian Hamlet at Historic St. Mary’s City. The longhouse witchott depicts how the Yaocomaco most likely lived at the time of the colonists’ arrival where as the smaller witchott (intended to accommodate a nuclear family unit) contains English colonial furnishing that would have been common for a colonist’s witchott home.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY8PGm62G7h03zqB9OcNlIOdqQT2odTtARRxWCSQOzeHLUiq_5Eh3Haz7T0ni5RTJ0IwzorpYGRe1-PRU2_k4e-0MQRbk8f5NWvSrBi9i7wPj0e81G0qGuyEfkbfOvaMFm7SS2-mVT1UhF/s1600/DSC06926.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY8PGm62G7h03zqB9OcNlIOdqQT2odTtARRxWCSQOzeHLUiq_5Eh3Haz7T0ni5RTJ0IwzorpYGRe1-PRU2_k4e-0MQRbk8f5NWvSrBi9i7wPj0e81G0qGuyEfkbfOvaMFm7SS2-mVT1UhF/s400/DSC06926.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In a letter to his brother Lord Baltimore, Lord Calvert describes a great demand by colonists for the Yaocomaco sleeping mats. It is also known that the Yaocomaco tribe’s Yeocomico pottery and access to beaver skins were often used in trade.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Yaocomaco sought English materials out of necessity rather than monetary motivation, desiring metal English tools and linen which were provided to the Yaocomaco in exchange for the land.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“To avoid all occasion of dislike, and Colour of wrong, we bought the space of thirtie miles of ground of them, for axes, hoes, cloth and hatchets, which we call Augusta Carolina. It made them more willing to enterteine us, for they had warres w<sup>th</sup> the Sasquasahannockes, who came sometimes upon them, and waste and spoile them and their country, for thus they hope by our meanes to be safe” (42) Father Andrew White, 1634. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Yaocomaco who remained in the village to assist the colonists in settling in the area vacated the settlement within the year following the harvest of the tribe’s crops. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">†<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Though missionary Father Andrew White succeeded in “converting” (rather, baptizing) several Yaocomaco, the Yaocomaco acceptance of the baptisms was likely solely to cement an allegiance with the colonists and had little real impact on the religious or cultural beliefs and practices of the Yaocomaco.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-4564082250392533482011-06-30T13:23:00.000-04:002011-06-30T13:23:07.633-04:00The Yoacomaco: St. Mary’s First Residents<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQ7F5tkZOmvngm0ucCs0fc526AtWmjEOapLJeH8Sko30em_um3O_sxhwIe3jjQ52FlvBT94s8GswUNWSc6lvuZzvrmWutlHBqX_YOoo8DzjreJfQymW2OvsrCaVxvGcoaYCLyvtBYoILW/s1600/yaocomaco.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQ7F5tkZOmvngm0ucCs0fc526AtWmjEOapLJeH8Sko30em_um3O_sxhwIe3jjQ52FlvBT94s8GswUNWSc6lvuZzvrmWutlHBqX_YOoo8DzjreJfQymW2OvsrCaVxvGcoaYCLyvtBYoILW/s400/yaocomaco.bmp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The native residents of what is now St. Mary’s City were the Yaocomaco, an independent Piscataway Indian clan of the Seccowocomaco tribe- a tribe that lived near present day Choptico. The Yaocomaco were of Algonquian lingual and Eastern Woodland cultural origin. They were probably living near the St. Mary’s River to take advantage of the natural resources of the region as well as potential trade with other natives and Europeans such as Henry Fleete who traded for beaver furs on the Potomac and its tributaries. Residing on either side of the river, the Yoacomaco tribe who lived in St. Mary’s City previous to its settlement were a hunting and gathering tribe, dependent on the seasonal local agriculture for survival. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzp6RDS6EhMKNEr20ze2mMCU55q-vBUVOf7tF6nq4MuoKdSFs9iED4GvCyipW4NWHxXw6bIQrNcuPV6c6_sPyqYk6Y25NYp14G_Cef8bdbDtoGH0-d9FvPkzGS7IPtYcEVk2S0oEH4lHk3/s1600/yaocomaco+man.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzp6RDS6EhMKNEr20ze2mMCU55q-vBUVOf7tF6nq4MuoKdSFs9iED4GvCyipW4NWHxXw6bIQrNcuPV6c6_sPyqYk6Y25NYp14G_Cef8bdbDtoGH0-d9FvPkzGS7IPtYcEVk2S0oEH4lHk3/s400/yaocomaco+man.JPG" width="202" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“The Piscataway and Patuxent peoples…lived in towns, although subsistence requirements necessitated seasonal movement to interior hunting camps and regular coming and going from the towns” (Clark 119). A large component of the Yaocomaco diet, hunting was the chief occupation of men in the tribe. The most commonly hunted animals included deer, reptiles, shellfish, and most importantly fish such as sturgeon and striped bass.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0xnztxoAAeewC5bGoqcqCVi1M8X664kWUHvfhaoQahEoYnxCBK0ONROmrfaqsaD1uuIJ2myG7i0rJBuYDcdvt406xlBCBXFsO06kBq1u-VocjP8fYbyt9TW5wf0AjEDiDcni3qKXNZkA/s1600/img008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0xnztxoAAeewC5bGoqcqCVi1M8X664kWUHvfhaoQahEoYnxCBK0ONROmrfaqsaD1uuIJ2myG7i0rJBuYDcdvt406xlBCBXFsO06kBq1u-VocjP8fYbyt9TW5wf0AjEDiDcni3qKXNZkA/s400/img008.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Seasonal harvests of corn, beans and squash made up the majority of the Yaocomaco diet along with native seeds, fruits, and roots harvested nearby by the women of the tribe. A staple of the Yaocomaco way of life, corn was of the utmost importance to the tribe so much so that the destruction of a corn crop could be punishable by death. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI4payGWvyzQVgsILN6-QSsNO-x59w3KZldtohnJLL81VWSiagVvcjt4rIq9H1V27h89l8ZS-UawdcSQl9kqRmJH72S8tfKoVMzXuzjGDKkktHtWEXUIJYAIyEs0Wrys8GMP3lHNyAoBDs/s1600/Indian+Woman.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI4payGWvyzQVgsILN6-QSsNO-x59w3KZldtohnJLL81VWSiagVvcjt4rIq9H1V27h89l8ZS-UawdcSQl9kqRmJH72S8tfKoVMzXuzjGDKkktHtWEXUIJYAIyEs0Wrys8GMP3lHNyAoBDs/s400/Indian+Woman.JPG" width="142" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The appearance of the Yaocomaco was described in detail by the colonists who observed and lived among them. Taller and displaying better health than the average European, the Yaocomaco were reportedly “tawny”-skinned with black hair which was often worn in two long locks on either side of the head. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Colonist John Lawson describes a tradition of body pigmentation among the Yaocomaco, explaining they would “dawb themselves with Bears Oil, and a Colour like burnt Cork. This is begun in their Infancy, and continued for a long time, which fills the Pores, and enables them better to endure the Extremity of the Weather” (Rountree 54).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Red and blue pigments would likewise be used on the face “mixed with oil, to keep off the mosquitoes,” according to Father Andrew white, a missionary colonists. And women would often have tattoos on the face, breasts, arms, and legs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Making use of the abundant resources available, the Yaocomaco often wore animal (specifically deer) hides as loincloths and aprons<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in warm weather and as mantles and leggings with linen trade shirts in colder months as well as moccasins and fur. Both men and women wore jewelry made from shell, bone, copper, stone, clay, and pearl beads as well as small animal parts for decoration. </span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-41184346514190128082011-06-22T15:52:00.000-04:002011-06-22T15:52:14.496-04:00The Anatomy of a Witchott<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsHh7t1TfRNfPhbewgm6cLh8pVsrRjQG0XmSVpMmDvkt_K6gQANF95UfHwPSeg31EFKcDREQzv35YQlXFjZpas2eYN6AuGO_el-LFRU3DaeWAX1TKjoZ4XhPDlL-_Wlxpzb12ACLkyVv6E/s1600/hamlet+engraving+by+Theodor+de+Bry+1590.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsHh7t1TfRNfPhbewgm6cLh8pVsrRjQG0XmSVpMmDvkt_K6gQANF95UfHwPSeg31EFKcDREQzv35YQlXFjZpas2eYN6AuGO_el-LFRU3DaeWAX1TKjoZ4XhPDlL-_Wlxpzb12ACLkyVv6E/s1600/hamlet+engraving+by+Theodor+de+Bry+1590.gif" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To preserve authenticity, the witchott will be built according to historical and archeological references.<span style="color: #c00000;"> </span>The reconstruction team will use natural materials to build the witchott as it would have been built by the Yaocomaco.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The reconstruction team is modeling the new witchott after first-hand accounts by colonists such as Jesuit priest, Father Andrew White, and engravings by Theodor De Bry based on descriptions of similar American Indian villages by English explorers John White and Thomas Harriot.<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtgeAbgf6DdezX9xkqiwmvNOciOcsDBw_z8cNOpbyxmRCc5-Z7xTnemytxUTEnWDv3RVgwC_3B3O6N5dnshGU5x2OJVlu1-Qp95U_T-ALmHMKItzecyxQqR7d_e7OxU8zlVupVOGVT6epy/s1600/DSC06908.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtgeAbgf6DdezX9xkqiwmvNOciOcsDBw_z8cNOpbyxmRCc5-Z7xTnemytxUTEnWDv3RVgwC_3B3O6N5dnshGU5x2OJVlu1-Qp95U_T-ALmHMKItzecyxQqR7d_e7OxU8zlVupVOGVT6epy/s320/DSC06908.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The frame of the witchott will be comprised of arched cedar, hickory, or red maple saplings approximately 20 inches apart, tethered together with rawhide to form an oval structure. The longhouse witchott on site is somewhat larger than the estimated average longhouse in order to facilitate tours, measuring 35 feet long and 15feet wide versus the traditional 20 feet long by 12 feet wide. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDaQlWWNqnoHSHbLspHr4hR_s7n6q46K2mo8OhO-LI7cImpYit2n5pTMWCA450riRpw80bAbsr_CSCUjzrnZiOf1l5__KpR5-2yjMP73JEGrL7QmHt_FKGSTjKVrf-PKiu-WbsrzJVeWbi/s1600/img009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDaQlWWNqnoHSHbLspHr4hR_s7n6q46K2mo8OhO-LI7cImpYit2n5pTMWCA450riRpw80bAbsr_CSCUjzrnZiOf1l5__KpR5-2yjMP73JEGrL7QmHt_FKGSTjKVrf-PKiu-WbsrzJVeWbi/s320/img009.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“The houses were built of light poles bent over and tied together and covered with bark or rush mats. At each end was a doorway, formed by a curtain of mats which could be raised and lowered. …the women always kept a fire going in the houses” (Ferguson 1).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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</div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-85024393744034537362011-06-22T15:37:00.000-04:002011-06-22T15:37:27.152-04:00Witchott Reconstruction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie4uNc5WzQA7Qv268P196p5HkFXmXGZk5tDIzOMdzQvvm-Gye3FBP_SOAR3vY3j7NEVWmNBBmE-dz8ZeglUmVkk-S6zMKeNQwgFJOQDdBnj2B1ejK8gUPPC-yOfI9FA7-QPVGyKd6NXiXO/s1600/DSC06882.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie4uNc5WzQA7Qv268P196p5HkFXmXGZk5tDIzOMdzQvvm-Gye3FBP_SOAR3vY3j7NEVWmNBBmE-dz8ZeglUmVkk-S6zMKeNQwgFJOQDdBnj2B1ejK8gUPPC-yOfI9FA7-QPVGyKd6NXiXO/s320/DSC06882.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This summer, Historic St. Mary’s City staff and volunteers are rebuilding the main witchott (longhouse) at the Woodland Indian Hamlet exhibit. For nearly thirty years the witchott has stood as the focus of the Hamlet. It is an important tool for interpreting and preserving the culture and heritage of the native people who occupied the Chesapeake region long before the settlement of Maryland’s first capital. The witchott- an Algonquian word probably meaning “my house”- has weathered hurricanes, tropical storms, and blizzards that have reduced modern structures to pieces, but after thirty years it is starting to show its age.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For the safety of staff and visitors, the Hamlet will be closed to the public from June 11<sup>th</sup> to September 9<sup>th</sup>, except for specific dates. On July 9 and 23 as well as August 13, we will rally volunteers and open the site for viewing. To learn more about the project, meet Hamlet supervisor Coby Treadway at the Visitor Center at 1:30 p.m. To volunteer, contact HSMC volunteer coordinator Anne Forrest at </span><a href="mailto:amforrest@smcm.edu"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">amforrest@smcm.edu</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> or call 240-895-4977 or 301-904-5070<span style="color: #c00000;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHxaZN44zSvbdeQwcE_-b9mIC6BKCacgYS-ONAQ-EtC7ZQjX4LEa6qpsMr75YHrMMkOExMNJicWqcg4s8brmwzKf0ySor-PSU3PnXGA8jY7jNQU4XDSFXSIOpSVxRKF-XNdr73sKxNwxp/s1600/img005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHxaZN44zSvbdeQwcE_-b9mIC6BKCacgYS-ONAQ-EtC7ZQjX4LEa6qpsMr75YHrMMkOExMNJicWqcg4s8brmwzKf0ySor-PSU3PnXGA8jY7jNQU4XDSFXSIOpSVxRKF-XNdr73sKxNwxp/s320/img005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When Maryland’s colonists arrived, the Yaocomaco had settled on both sides of the St. Mary’s River. Today’s St. Mary’s City was the site of a settlement of approximately 15 witchotts and other structures including hunting and sweat lodges as well as work shelters. The traditional Yaocomaco witchott would have sheltered an extended family of around 10-12 people during the Late Woodland Period, spanning from roughly 500 to 1000 CE. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH8k6HCSB3Px6hRl_6XXzdVdUvHxJtrcfNY937laW5B2AynL1T2yEcIfN6ULiGNiPnUeTqIANWeYrHjhtRIRkuu6fniJovC1pn-XoYbQpPwgxLgicK3s6D4rOCpzxivfmp5Xf3PtUiARbi/s1600/DSC06894.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH8k6HCSB3Px6hRl_6XXzdVdUvHxJtrcfNY937laW5B2AynL1T2yEcIfN6ULiGNiPnUeTqIANWeYrHjhtRIRkuu6fniJovC1pn-XoYbQpPwgxLgicK3s6D4rOCpzxivfmp5Xf3PtUiARbi/s320/DSC06894.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Piscataway [and Yaocomaco] houses were…biodegradable and above ground…. They were barrel-roofed affairs consisting of sapling framework and a mat or bark cover, with a smoke hole to vent smoke from the central fire. Their length ran from twenty to a hundred feet, their breadth about twelve feet, their height about ten feet. Along their sides were low platforms with mats spread on them for beds.” (Clark 119)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDcCZOWhPWDxB-BXyWuTNpmeIHTTM_74HVs1uhIKVl-P_UFXAIB2AreouM698KAT0At1k8X-xYbDVJ0yH25_KKHYwqgRE_NPgKLpUh7PR1m02ywy7kUiz-JXPhzpWtaTlMXJ9AsEJHe_jA/s1600/DSC06918.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDcCZOWhPWDxB-BXyWuTNpmeIHTTM_74HVs1uhIKVl-P_UFXAIB2AreouM698KAT0At1k8X-xYbDVJ0yH25_KKHYwqgRE_NPgKLpUh7PR1m02ywy7kUiz-JXPhzpWtaTlMXJ9AsEJHe_jA/s320/DSC06918.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nearly all materials used to build and furnish the witchotts are authentic and natural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phragmite mats cover the cedar frame and animal skins blanket the platform bed spanning the side wall of the house. Intended as only a semi-permanent structure due to the migratory nature of the Yaocomaco, witchotts have a relatively short lifespan. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The new witchott is expected to be open to the public on the annual Woodland Discovery Day September 10, 2011.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301807771722029937.post-17251751750709671742011-06-01T10:12:00.000-04:002011-06-01T10:12:44.531-04:00Welcome to the HSMC Witchott Blog!Over the course of this summer, this blog will be your gateway to experience the re-construction of the Witchott longhouse in Historic St. Mary's City's Woodland Indian Hamlet. Not only will we keep you up to date with the Witchott Project, we will delve into the rich history of the Yaocomaco American Indians, St. Mary's first residents, and the early years of the colonial settlement at St. Mary's City. <br />
For more information about Historic St. Mary's City and to schedule tours, visit the HSMC website: <a href="http://www.stmaryscity.org/">http://www.stmaryscity.org/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0