Barabaras are no longer used, [5] as present-day Aleuts live in modern houses and apartment buildings. The roof of a barabara was generally made from sod and grass layered over a frame of wood or whalebone, and contained a roof doorway for entry. The main room had two rows for cots, less-excavated and higher than the rest of the room.

Known today by the Russian word barabara, the traditional Alutiiq house was a sod and thatch-covered structure built partially underground (semi-subterranean). After digging a foundation pit, builders erected a post-and-beam framework and covered it with planks split from driftwood.

2000年1月1日 · The ulax, the basic Unangax Aleut house, is an oblong pit dwelling with wooden or whale bone frames and rafters covered by grass and sod. These dwellings were often hard to distinguish from the surrounding terrain. They were entered by means of a …

Collection of data about Unangam Ulaa - the traditional sod house of the Aleutian Islands, also known by the Russian name barabara.

Because the islands were treeless, the Aleut built houses with driftwood, whalebone, and sod. The sod-covered semi-subterranean dwellings were often hard to distinguish from the surrounding...

2018年5月21日 · Living in partly subterranean sod houses, they built relatively populous settlements, and had an economy based on hunting sea mammals, including whales. They rarely ventured inland, but traded along the Alaskan coasts, and seem to have traveled regularly throughout the North Pacific, including coastal Siberia, possibly for more than ten millennia.

Over thousands of years of use by the Aleuts, a single settlement location might have been at certain times a seasonal camp and at other times a year-round community, its changing use depending on the Aleut adaptation to fluctuations in food resources. Aleut homes provided its occupants with security from the climate.

FMIB 49173 Aleut village, western Alaska, showing obscurity of native barabaras or sod houses.jpeg 1,165 × 727; 195 KB FMIB 49183 Akutan Aleut mother and 8 children in front of barabki, or small type of sod hut The father is employed at a …

2023年9月3日 · In a press announcement by the Alutiiq Museum, archaeologists have uncovered fragments of ancient weavings during excavations of an ancestral sod house on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Weaving is a long-practiced Alutiiq art, but one that is difficult to document archaeologically as fibre artifacts are fragile and rarely preserved.

Only small houses are known in sites more than 1,000 years old. Because the islands were treeless, the people built houses with driftwood, whalebone, and sod. The roof had openings for smoke to escape, light to enter, and people to enter.