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Huts/Domestic Buildings

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Thatch Huts in Use Today
1843. Street near Kabah with typical Yucatec domestic huts.
Closely based on Catherwood’s 1841-42 on-site drawing, published in Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, 1843
Caretaker's storage hut at Labná archaeological site.
photo Jan. 2003
 Labná. Front of characteristic Yucatec Maya thatched domestic hut; main structural framework inside; concrete rubble foundation, walls of vertical poles and sticks, palm thatch roof, modern metal ridge covering.
photo Jan. 2001
Labná. Front of deserted thatched hut in disrepair, showing exposed roof structure and deteriorating plaster on stick walls.
photo Jan. 2001
 Labná. Newly refinished thatched house, new thatched roof with typical modern metal ridge covering, pole and stick walls fully covered with plaster and local red clay.
photo Jan. 2003
 At Labná archaeological site: framing in of rear extension to thatched hut; pile of red clay in foreground for surfacing outside wall.
photo Jan. 2002

Labná, same building as in photo above-right. Apsidal shaped end showing two main A-frame poles supporting ridgepole, with other poles, rods and sticks used for different framework functions.
photo Jan. 2002

Same building. Detail of construction, showing notched top of mainpost to hold main crossbeam, which supports natural forks of A-frame poles; showing lashing together of poles, rods, etc., using local vines.
photo Jan. 2002
 Same building. Interior of same apse shaped end, now covered with thatch.
photo Jan. 2003
West of Muna. Model "House of the Yucatan Peasant," with courtyard, well, and other structures; constructed behind store-restaurant.
photo Jan. 2001
Detail of domestic hut in photo at left, with living quarters, showing stick walls and vertical structural poles.
photo Jan. 2001
Looking through back door to front door of entrance building in photo at far left.
photo Jan. 2001
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