My 9-year-old daughter is into fort-building. Her 4th grade class has been studying Alaska Native cultures, which inspired her recently to race home after school and construct an Aleut house in our back woods.
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Look at the sturdiness of that structure,
which so perfectly demonstrates the concepts of
function AND beauty.
to model how ancient Alaskans might have warmed themselves.
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1 comment:
You take the best pictures...and it looks like that's exactly what she's contemplating about!!!
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