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[Portrait of Wallace Burrows of Indians of California taken in front of the semi-subterranum dancehouse that was located in the village of Grindstone Indian Reservation. Donor/Source of Loan: Willows Museum (LOAN)] "This semi-subterranum dancehouse is located in the village at the Grindstone Reservation, six miles north of Elk Creek in western Glenn County, Ca. Wallace Burrows was born about 1888 near Newville, ten miles to the north. H.B. Julian, and early day rancher along Stony Creek, gave 80 acres of land situated at the confluence of Grindstone and Stony Creeks in the late 1800s, shortly after 1900, the area became an Indian Reservation, consisting of the 80 acres donated to the Indians. The first dancehouse was built in 1894 when Mr. Burrows was about six years of age. The natives did all of the work on building the semi-subterrean structure which was about 40 feet across and had a conical roof. An opening in the roof allowed the smoke from the fire around which the natives danced, to escape from the structure. Dances are still held in the dancehouse three times a year. 1949, the dancehouse was reshingled. The Federated Women's club donated the money and the natives brought down logs of wood from above the snowline in the western mountains and made their own shingles by splitting them by hand. This roof lasted until severe storms in the 1960's did much damage. New cedar shingles were donated by the Willows Chapter, daughters of the American Rev. in 1970-1971."
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