Learn About Ancestors

Ciqluaq - traditional Alutiiq house (left). An outside wall is taken away in this drawing so you can look inside. Large posts held up a timber roof that was covered with grass and earth. Smaller side rooms were for sleeping, storing food, and taking steam baths. Smoke from the fireplace escaped through an opening in the roof. The drawing on the right shows the outline of rooms in an old house, as mapped by archaeologists. Drawings by Mark Matson and Richard Knecht.