Figure 1: Photo of Arikara lodge #1 taken in the late 1800s.

 

Figure 2: Archeological drawing of Arikara Lodge #1 floor plan, based on 1950s excavation. For modeling purposes, the floor plan is reproduced "to the inch" using AutoCad (an engineering drawing program).

 

Figure 3: An image of a Form-Z model extruded from the AutoCad representation of the floor plan just above. Note the support beams are irregularly spaced and doubled up in some places.

 

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Video: This is a video of the scanning process of a re-created Mandan earthlodge located at On-A-Slant Village just south of Bismarck, North Dakota. The scanning and the video was done by Spacial Data Services Inc. (SDS).