Troops needed fast disposable shelter while on the run.
Seminole palmetto roofs.
As used in this paragraph the term chickee means an open sided wooden hut that has a thatched roof of palm or palmetto or other traditional materials and that does not incorporate any electrical plumbing or other nonwood features.
I love the smell of a new chickee.
Nearly everything used to build a chickee came from the palmetto tree which was common in the southeastern united states.
The chickee style of architecture palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame was born during the early 1800s when seminole indians pursued by u s.
The same fronds can also be used to thatch chickee roofs.
H chickees constructed by the miccosukee tribe of indians of florida or the seminole tribe of florida.
Troops needed fast disposable shelter while on the run.
A chickee was a house built on stilts usually about three or four feet above the ground.
The traditional seminole house called a chikkee was a simple open shelter of cypress poles with a thatched palmetto roof cool and comfortable in the summer heat.
Our example was woven by a seminole tribal member.
The florida building code states.
The term chickee means an open sided wooden hut that has a thatched roof of palm or palmetto or other traditional materials and that does not incorporate any electrical plumbing.
Some people in big cypress still live in family camps with a cooking shed and separate chikkees for sleeping and storage.
The chickee style of architecture palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame was born during the early 1800s when seminole indians pursued by u s.
According to the seminole tribe of florida s website chickee is the word seminole indians use for house.