In each lodge, there was a hole in the ground about
3 to 4 feet deep. This is called a cache pit. It was used to store food.
This picture shows the pit covered with sticks.
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Foods such as corn, nuts, pemmican, and berries
were stored there. The cache pit acted somewhat like a refrigerator because of the
cooler temperatures below the surface of the ground. This picture shows the pit with
a few sticks covering the top of the pit.
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This is a side view of inside a cache pit. It
is inside a glass display box in the museum. It shows what the pit may have looked
like when it was full of food. Later when bugs and mice found the hole, it became a
trash pit. Many interesting artifacts are found in the cache pit turned trash
pit. For that reason, it is called a "trash gold mine".
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