Aboriginal Seating

[kaiamara]

When/setting: Sometime in the 1500s when Canada is still a French colony (as in there's no Britons around

Comments

[xtricks]

Try searching by tribal name 'history', 'home', 'furnishings' etc.

[ashestothestars]

The tribes that were in that area would have been the Algonquin, the Iroquois, and possibly some Mi'kmaq. Hopefully that should help you narrow it down along with the other commenter's suggestions.

[atdelphi]

Well, longhouses and large wigwams - structures that housed large or multiple families - had benches as seating, or for work surfaces, or to hold mats as beds. In smaller huts, whether someone sat on furs or the floor or on a cushion, or whether they squatted rather than sat would probably depend on the individual and area customs.

[sollersuk]

From the illustrations of the time that I have seen, like my ancestors on the Welsh side they either squatted or sat on the ground, whether indoors or outdoors.

[syntinen_laulu]

There's a whole 17th-century Jesuit missionary post in Ontario called "Sainte Marie Among the Hurons" that has been lovingly reconstructed, with furnished Huron longhouses. It's many years since I was there and I can't remember details like seating arrangements, but I'm sure that Google would throw up some images for you.