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Interior view of a Yurok sweathouse, which shows the round exit and its cover, as well as the pillow carved from redwood on the floor to the left, rectangular with a shallow curve, it was used to lay down below the level of smoke from the center…

View of a Yurok house and roof, constructed out of redwood.

Yurok woman standing in front of traditional redwood plank-style houses.

Three Yurok men carve and finish a canoe built from a single redwood log.

Yurok Grandmother sitting in "double-ended" redwood canoe.

Child dressed up at the doorway of the Brooks' House, the old Yurok Native Family House in Requa.

A Logging crew posing with their equipment in the center of the tree cut for display at the World's Fair in 1893.

This Redwood was hollowed out by fire over 300 years ago, the tree is still growing vigorously.

This image depicts a Wiyot family standing in front of the remnants of the Wiyot village of Hatpileka. The structures on the left are the village houses in the plank-style, with a traditional sweathouse to the right.

Scene of a Yurok Village in Wahsekw, depicting the traditional redwood-plank styled houses.