Each room was divided into two terraces; the one in front being covered with red mats, while that in the rear, a kind of raised dais or great couch, was strewn with skins.

They contained stools hewed out of poplar logs, and chests made of clapboards sewed together with buffalo thongs.[23] The rotunda or council-house stood near the square on the highest spot in the village.

It was round, and fifty or sixty feet across, with a high peaked roof; the rafters were fastened with splints and covered with bark.

A raised dais ran around the wall, strewed with mats and skins.

Sometimes in the larger council-houses there were painted eagles, carved out of poplar wood, placed close to the red and white seats where the chiefs and warriors sat; or in front of the broad dais were great images of the full and the half moon, colored white or black; or rudely carved and painted figures of the panther, and of men with buffalo horns.