Our example was woven by a seminole tribal member.
Seminole palmetto roofs.
I love the smell of a new chickee.
The chickee style of architecture palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame was born during the early 1800s as a quick and disposable dwelling while they were avoiding american troops.
Troops needed fast disposable shelter while on the run.
H chickees constructed by the miccosukee tribe of indians of florida or the seminole tribe of florida.
A chickee was a house built on stilts usually about three or four feet above the ground.
A chickee was usually about nine feet wide and sixteen feet long with a wooden platform which served as the floor and a thatched roof.
Some people in big cypress still live in family camps with a cooking shed and separate chikkees for sleeping and storage.
The same fronds can also be used to thatch chickee roofs.
The florida building code 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.
According to the seminole tribe of florida s website chickee is the word seminole indians use for house.
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.
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 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.
Troops needed fast disposable shelter while on the run.