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In early New Zealand, some people built sod houses. They dug up clumps of dirt and grass, and built them into houses to live in. They were very warm, but not easy to clean!

Sod houses did not have a lot of windows.

The Maori and other early settlers built houses from raupo or nikau. This is an early settler inside a raupo whare.