Wigwam / Wetu (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Domestic Structures

Relatively small dwellings, typically circular or rectangular and about 3 meters tall, made of wooden frames with bases dug into the soil and covered with woven mats or sheets of birchbark. The frames could be shaped like a dome, a cone, or a rectangle with an arched roof.

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A Class III Cultural Resources Survey of 988 Acres of Bureau of Reclamation Withdrawn Lands Along the Lower Verde River near Verde River Sheep Bridge, Yavapai County, Arizona (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sean Teeter. Chris North. Justin Rego. Gary Huckleberry.

As required under Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, the Bureau of Reclamation's (Reclamation) Phoenix Area Office (PXAO) requested Logan Simpson Design (LSD) conduct a Class III survey of 988 acres of withdrawn lands along the lower Verde River near the Verde River Sheep Bridge. The land was withdrawn for the Salt River Project (SRP) and is administered by the Cave Creek Ranger District of the Tonto National Forest (TNF). The goal of the survey is to provide an...


The Historic Hualapai Occupation at Hackberry, Mohave County, Arizona: Archival, Ethnohistoric, and Archaeological Investigations (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David E. Purcell.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, conducted testing and data recovery at Site AZ G:10:8(ASM), the Hackberry Townsite, to mitigate potential impacts from construction of the Mead to Phoenix 500kV Transmission Line (the Mead to Phoenix Project). The Mead to Phoenix Project, currently under construction, is one link in a proposed regional power grid (Rogge and O’Brien 1990). SWCA conducted a program of testing and data recovery to clear construction at the Hackberry Townsite, the subject of...