 Called a "si7xten" (SHIH-stn) in the St'at'imcets language, its design is based on notes drawn by anthropologist James Teit, who had settled and married in with the Nlaka'pamux people of Spences Bridge.Teit had never been to Lillooet and based all his knowledge of the "si7xten" and the rest of his notes on that people, but based all his knowledge on interviews with a St'at'imc woman who had married into the Spences Bridge people.It was not just from her account that Teit drew drawings upon which Lillooet's rebuilt "si7xten" was built, but also from his knowledge of underground houses in the Thompson and Bonaparte valleys – in his day, many people still lived in them.