Housing:

The Iroquois lived in houses called longhouses. The size of a typical longhouse ranged from 50 to 150 feet in length and 18 to 25 feet in both width and height. The frame of the longhouse was made out of wood The longhouse had two doors, one on each end, and it had no windows.The roof had several small holes that allowed smoke from the inside to escape to the outside. Around the longhouse were sharp,staked fences that covered the longhouse.

 

 

 Family life:

Iroquois women controlled the longhouse. The women lived their whole life in the longhouse in which they were born. The leaders of the longhouse were the elder women. The women were in charge of raising the children and harvesting the crops. Iroquois men left their longhouse that they grew up in when they got married. Then, they lived in their wives' longhouses. The men brought only a few items such as weapons and clothing into their wives' longhouses. The men spent much of their time trading, hunting, and in war. The children learned a lot from their parents. The girls helped their mothers with household chores and with harvesting the crops. The boys' uncles taught them how to hunt and play games that would prepare them for manhood.

Weapons:

The Iroquois had many types of weapons. They had bows and arrows and spears. The bows were made out of hickory or ash wood. The tips of the arrows were made out of flint, turtle claw, antler bone, or deer bone. Also, blowguns, which were wooden tubes that held sharp darts that were blown out of the tube, were used for hunting birds.