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The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee or People of the Longhouses) who lived in New York, Ontario, and Quebec built and lived in longhouses. Longer than they were wide, these longhouses had openings at both ends that served as doors and were covered with animal skins during the winter to keep out the cold. On average a typical longhouse was about 80 by 18 by 18 ft (24 by 5.5 by 5.5 m) and was meant to house up to twenty or more families, most of which were typically matrilinearly related. Poles were set in the ground and braced by horizontal poles along the walls. The roof is made by bending a series of poles, resulting in an arc-shaped roof. The frame is covered by bark that is sewn in place and layered as shingles, and reinforced by light poles… Ventilation openings, later singly dubbed as a smoke hole, were positioned at intervals possibly totalling five to six along the roofing of the longhouse.
Tribes or ethnic groups in the northeast of North America, south and east of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie that had traditions of building longhouses are, among others, the Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) including the Five Nations Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk. Also the Wyandot and Erie. Another large group that built longhouses, among others, were the Lenni Lenape, living from the lower Hudson River, along the Delaware River and on both sides of the Delaware Bay, and the Pamunkey of the maybe-related Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia.
Therefore, brethren, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And what they said pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Proch’orus, and Nica’nor, and Ti’mon, and Par’menas, and Nicola’us, a proselyte of Antioch. These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands upon them. And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem – Acts 6:3-7
Stefan Glass was one of the artist’s closest friends. Glass was a mathematician, philosopher, poet, translator, author of a chapter on ether in a Witkiewicz pamphlet on drugs (signed as Dezydery Dr. Prokopowicz). Glass was a frequent participant in the Zakopane clique surrounding Witkacy, who continued his earlier controlled experiments with various drugs (morphine, cocaine, peyote, and others). Witkacy painted and wrote under their influence. He also recorded, in small notes on his paintings, the drug that was influencing him at the time, even if it was only a cup of coffee.
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