The Caddo, like the Wichita, were an agricultural tribe and also built more permanent homes than the roaming, hunting tribes. Here at Indian City, you see two of these homes and a large Council House, as well as a community work shelter with a meat drying rack. The Caddo built what is called a "wattle and daub" house. Timber form the walls and roof with spaces in between chinked with pieces of wood and brush finished off with a mixture of mud and brush for the outside and thick mud or adobe on the inside. Roofs are a combination of willow boughs and grass.
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