This article is about the communal dwelling. For longhouses as a place to urinate and defecate, see Outhouse. For the religious movement, see Longhouse Religion.
A North American Pacific Northwest Coast-style longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling. It has been built in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America.
Many were built from timber and often represent the earliest form of permanent structure in many cultures. Types include the Neolithic long house of Europe, the Norman Medieval Longhouses that evolved in Western Britain (Tŷ Hir) and Northern France (Longère), and the various types of longhouse built by different cultures among the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling. It has been built in various parts of...
Longhouses were a style of residential dwelling built by Native American and First Nations peoples in various parts of North America. Sometimes separate...
The Longhouse Religion is the popular name of the religious movement also known as the Code of Handsome Lake or Gaihwi:io/Kaliwihyo (Good Message), founded...
The Dartmoor longhouse is a type of traditional stone-built home, typically found on the high ground of Dartmoor, in Devon, England and belonging to a...
Old Frisian longhouses were, as the name indicates, long-bodied houses which can be found in the Dutch province Friesland. This type of house had more...
traditional costumes. The longhouse is cleaned, repaired and repainted by cooperation amongst its residents. The longhouse is constructed as a unique...
Acehnese style, built on a much larger scale. They were formerly used as uma longhouses by the Sakuddei tribe before they were forced to abandon their traditional...
Moirlanich Longhouse is a rare example of a cruck frame Scottish cottage. It is located at grid reference NN562341 in Glen Lochay near Killin in the Stirling...
European manner and the Longhouse manner, with the Longhouse ceremony usually held first. Replicas of seventeenth-century longhouses have been built at landmarks...
of the cultural houses in West Kalimantan is called "Rumah Panjang" (longhouse) because its size length and made of wood. This house is the residence...
Punan Sama is a small village (longhouse) situated along the Rajang River in Sarawak, Malaysia. The longhouse's previous name was "Lovuk Tepeleang". The...
composed typically of five to eight houses. Exceptionally, nearly 30 longhouses in a fortified settlement (dating to 4300 BC, i.e., Late Linear Pottery...
Coast constructed massive plank longhouses. They were often up to 100 feet long and 25 feet wide. The walls of the longhouse were formed from stacked planks...
mediaeval origins, including elements of their original longhouses: Bellever's medieval longhouse was demolished only last century when today's farmhouse...
significant regional variation. More recent examples include the Moirlanich Longhouse, Killin owned by the National Trust for Scotland (rye, bracken & turf)...
Longhouse Media is a Washington state non-profit indigenous media arts organization, based in Seattle. It was established in January 2005 by Executive...
Rangkiang, Javanese style Pendopo pavilion with Joglo style roof, Dayak's longhouses, various Malay houses, Balinese houses and temples, and also different...
engages in the farming of common lands and maintenance of the longhouse. The head of the longhouse itself is a man, with the position most commonly inherited...
Thanksgiving for the Harvest. Each nation's festivals shall be held in their Longhouses. §107: A certain sign shall be known to all the people of the Five Nations...
(/ˌhoʊdɪnoʊˈʃoʊni/ HOH-din-oh-SHOH-nee; lit. 'people who are building the longhouse') are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First...
people was in the form of a longhouse. Although some modern longhouses were built with gabled roofs, most Stó:lō longhouses were built with a single flat...
both Welsh tower houses: built mostly in the 14th and 15th centuries A longhouse is historical house type typically for family groups. Geestharden house:...
culturally the people residing in the longhouse are governed by the customs and traditions of the longhouse. Based on the archeological records in Borneo...
Preserve, the Lebanon Valley Rail Trail, and the Cornwall Iron Furnace. The Longhouse National Forest Scenic Byway follows a loop along PA 321, PA 59, and Forest...
Kalimantan and the Malaysian state of Sarawak. They traditionally live in longhouses called rumah panjai in Sarawak or betang (trunk) in West Kalimantan, because...
Rungus now work in town, and have abandoned the communal life of the longhouse for modern Malaysian society. Momogun Rungus has a very antique traditional...
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