hogans
Traditional earth lodges
Hogans is the plural of hogan, a traditional Navajo dwelling.
The structure is typically dome-shaped or conical, built with a wooden frame covered in earth or mud, with the entrance facing east toward the rising sun.
Hogans remain culturally significant for ceremonies and are still built and used today: Several hogans dotted the reservation landscape.
Cut wood sections
- cribbedCopied dishonestly
- corbelledStepped-out structural projection
- domeRounded vault forming roof
- juniperAromatic berry-bearing conifer
piñon · chinking · smoke hole · octagonal · hexagonal · interlocking · earthen floor · timber frame
Advance arrangement to hold
- Navajo NationSovereign tribal territory, Southwest US
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- tribeSocial group sharing ancestry
indigenous · Southwest · Native American · cultural heritage · frybread · mutton stew · sandpainting · medicine man
Formal event marking occasions
- blessingPrayer seeking divine favor
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- chantedRecited rhythmically aloud
- consecratedDeclared sacred through ritual
spiritual · purification · sage · prayer · birth · healing · sweat lodge · cardinal directions
One's personal residence
- residencePlace one inhabits
- hearthFireplace floor area
- firesideArea beside the hearth
- familyRelated people together
shelter · warmth · living space · one-room · traditional home · ancestral · round house · household
logs
Cut wood sections
juniper · piñon · chinking · smoke hole · octagonal · hexagonal · interlocking · earthen floor · timber frame · packed earth
reservation
Advance arrangement to hold
- Navajo NationSovereign tribal territory, Southwest US
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- traditionCustom passed through generations
tribe · indigenous · Southwest · Native American · cultural heritage · frybread · mutton stew · sandpainting · medicine man · weaving
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
consecrated · spiritual · purification · sage · prayer · birth · healing · sweat lodge · cardinal directions · cosmology
home
One's personal residence
family · shelter · warmth · living space · one-room · traditional home · ancestral · round house · household · communal
- Southwestmesa, Monument Valley, Arizona, New Mexico, Grand Canyon
- Four CornersFour Corners, Colorado Plateau, Monument Valley, Canyonlands, Navajo Nation
- NavajoNavajo weaving, turquoise jewelry, Monument Valley, Navajo blankets, fry bread
- primitive dwellingshuts, igloos, tepees, tipis, wigwams
- Native AmericansCherokee, Apache, Navajo, Sioux, Mohawk
- Navajo HistoryNavajo Nation, Fort Sumner, Navajo Code Talkers, chapter houses
hoganstepees
Cone-shaped portable dwellings
tipis · igloos · wigwams · longhouses · pueblos
hoganstepees
Cone-shaped portable dwellings
tipis · yurts · tents · portable shelters · mobile homes
hogansskyscrapers
Extremely tall urban buildings
apartments · tract houses · condominiums · prefab homes · high-rises
- Hulk HoganFamous professional wrestler
- Paul Hogan
- Hogan's HeroesWWII prisoner comedy series
- Ben Hogan