A replica of a traditional Native American wattle and daub house from the Southeastern United States near Cumberland Gap National Park, on the border of Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
The hut consists of a thatched roof hut, supported with a wooden posts in a circular configuration. The walls of the hut employ the wattle and daub construction technique. A woven lattice of wooden strips called “wattle” is combined with a plastering technique known as “daub” that is applied to the wooden lattice and includes a combination of wet soil, clay, sand, straw and animal dung. Wattle and daub is a construction technique that dates back more than 6,000 years, can be found in many places throughout the world, and remains in use today in different regions.
This particular hut has a single doorway with no windows, but an up roof that allows the smoke and heat from cooking fires to escape.
