Chapter 02 / Ancestor Systems
03 / 12

Signs Hold the House

The roof speaks before the door

A lifted boat-saddle silhouette gives the ancestor house its first northbound signal.

Panels turn memory into order

Red, black, white, and yellow fields divide each story into carved pa'ssura measure.

Horns count kinship in public

Stacked buffalo arcs at the eave make lineage visible without a single written name.

Posts lift ceremony above earth

Ironwood legs hold grain, guests, and obligation in one raised dusk-dark frame.