Pithouses, a Great Example of Art and Material Culture of the Fremont People
Class
Article
College
Caine College of the Arts
Faculty Mentor
Sandra Charlson
Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Abstract
Fremont dwellings are a peculiar form of art and a great example of material culture. I will see how ingenious the designs of these structures are especially compared to the dwellings of other cultures and tribes of North America at the time. I believe the Fremont people made great use of their surroundings and created a form of art and a way of life to go with it. I want to study this topic because architecture intrigues me. I have always been fascinated with the way humans construct things. I hope to find out more about the Fremont through their designs and dwellings. I want to ask what the first idea was for their houses and how it fleshed out throughout the lifetime of the Fremont people. Where did they start? What changes were made over the generations? How could they have made their dwellings even that much better based off of surrounding tribes and their structures? I will find evidence to support that fact that the Fremont found a perfect way to live in the environment they did. Being half in the ground and half above they were able to keep cool in the summer and warm in the winter due to the insulation. Their dwellings used minimal wood compared to those of the south-eastern woodland tribes, this was partly due to the fact they lived in a desert climate where trees were not in abundance. I will turn to science to prove these points. I plan on building my own version of a cutout of the common ground hut dwelling of the Fremont. I plan on making it either twice or thrice the size of the current cutout in the museum of anthropology. I will use more detail and show my findings and facts on a poster.
Location
The South Atrium
Start Date
4-12-2018 1:30 PM
End Date
4-12-2018 2:45 PM
Pithouses, a Great Example of Art and Material Culture of the Fremont People
The South Atrium
Fremont dwellings are a peculiar form of art and a great example of material culture. I will see how ingenious the designs of these structures are especially compared to the dwellings of other cultures and tribes of North America at the time. I believe the Fremont people made great use of their surroundings and created a form of art and a way of life to go with it. I want to study this topic because architecture intrigues me. I have always been fascinated with the way humans construct things. I hope to find out more about the Fremont through their designs and dwellings. I want to ask what the first idea was for their houses and how it fleshed out throughout the lifetime of the Fremont people. Where did they start? What changes were made over the generations? How could they have made their dwellings even that much better based off of surrounding tribes and their structures? I will find evidence to support that fact that the Fremont found a perfect way to live in the environment they did. Being half in the ground and half above they were able to keep cool in the summer and warm in the winter due to the insulation. Their dwellings used minimal wood compared to those of the south-eastern woodland tribes, this was partly due to the fact they lived in a desert climate where trees were not in abundance. I will turn to science to prove these points. I plan on building my own version of a cutout of the common ground hut dwelling of the Fremont. I plan on making it either twice or thrice the size of the current cutout in the museum of anthropology. I will use more detail and show my findings and facts on a poster.