The Native American adobe

By: Madison Douglas Lived in and built by Hopi Pueblo

Indians that lived in the northwestern part of Arizona

What does an adobe look like?Adobes can look like apartment buildings or just a single square home. Some are even built into the side of mountains. But most are made of baked bricks made of mud and straw.

How do you build one?

• Adobe bricks are made from mud and straw baked sometimes from the sun and sometime from kilns.

• Then the bricks are put together using a similar mixture used like cement.

• Sometimes they are built into

the side of mountains like this

photo

The roof.

• Roofs are some times covered In curved shingles like in the photo to the right or they have logs set over the top and adobe packed on top like the photo to the left.

Cooking sanitation and getting water.

• They where successful farmers but they also hunted so they must have cooked there food I guess they cooked over a fire that is the most common form of cooking.

• There only means of transportation was walking and they didn’t live near any water source so I guess they had to walk long distances to get water.

Windows and doors.

• Most have at least wooden planks for doors or nothing but large holes.

• Most that I have seen don’t have window but jus rectangle holes in the walls.

Could it work in Caldwell County? Could it adapt so it would work hear?

• No it wouldn't work hear it needs to be dry so the bricks will hold up.

• It really couldn't adapt because if it wasn’t made of what it is made of then it really wouldn't be an adobe. But if it was made of adobe and was built hear then the bricks wouldn't hold up it would be like an igloo in the desert it just wouldn't work.

1. http.//www.native-languages.org 2. http.//www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/s00000180.shtml3. http.//farm2.static.flickr.com/13332/542009946_5ca5d8f0b4.jpg?v=0