Some were living with their women and children in palm-thatched huts, though bachelors moved about without a place of their own.
Tropical marine biology is taught in palm-thatched huts in the South Pacific.
Meals are served in the dining area, a large palm-thatched hut where buffets are the order of the day.
The village when they reached it consisted of three dozen palm-thatched huts raised on poles ten feet above the ground.
Shredded like paper were the palapas, the palm-thatched huts under which poolside bars are housed.
Two papaya trees and numerous coconut palms bordered the weathered palm-thatched hut, heavy laden with fruit.
They lived in structures called chickees, open-sided palm-thatched huts, probably adapted from the Calusa.
Quetzal's domain was little more than a huddle of palm-thatched huts.
Beyond the building, a ragtag mix of palm-thatched huts and wooden homes spread across the cleared jungle floor.
For 15 miles in either direction along the wide crystalline beach there is not even a palm-thatched hut.