Seminole "Chickee"
Above left: A Seminole Native American village in Florida. Lithograph, American, 1837.: Above right: Seminole chichee in Clay MacCauley's report (MacCauley 1887), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Neg.Nol1178-N-8-1.
Seminole Culture, chickee used by Mikasuki language people from 1830s C.E.; and still in use; previous to that they lived in log cabin lodges; located in south Florida. The Chickee is without walls and the floor raised and composed of perforated matting to allow ambient breezes to cool the inhabitants.
Elevation close to sea level.
Materials: bald cyprus log structure; palmetto thatch roof.
Data for CG model:
1. https://www.semtribe.com/Culture/Chickee.aspx
2. MacCauley, Clay, 1887; The Seminole Indians of Florida, in Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
