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An Oglala Lakota tipi, 1891. A tipi or tepee (/ ˈ t iː p i / TEE-pee) is a conical lodge tent that is distinguished from other conical tents by the smoke flaps at the top of the structure, and historically made of animal hides or pelts or, in more recent generations, of canvas stretched on a framework of wooden poles.
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Tepees are conical in shape, consisting of up to ten poles wrapped in animal skins. [5] They typically have an interior space ranging from 80 to 175 square feet and traditionally housed one family. A flap in the animal skins serves as a doorway, and a hole in the center of the tepee’s roof allows smoke and heat to escape.
The individual units are called "wigwams", not "rooms" or "tepees" or "cabins". The units are numbered from 1 to 16, (there is no 13). The base diameter is 14 feet (4.3 m), with each unit 32 feet (9.8 m) in height. Behind the main room of each unit is a small bathroom with sink, toilet and shower.
A modern teepee structure on the shore of the Dead Sea. Teepee (also spelled tepee or tipi) structures are sedimentary structures interpreted to represent formation in peritidal environments.
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In Hidatsa culture, men only raised the large logs; the rest of the work was done by women. Therefore, a lodge was considered to be owned by the woman who built it. A vestibule of exposed logs marked the entrance and provided an entryway; these vestibules were often a minimum of 6 to 9 feet (1.8 to 2.7 m) in length (determined by the size of the lodge and resulting outer-clay thickness).
Travois photos, A Song for the Horse Nation, National Museum of the American Indian; Horse-Drawn travois Archived 2019-08-05 at the Wayback Machine, at Crow Fair; Atsina Indian on horse pulling travois, photograph by Edward S. Curtis; Travois photographs, from Denver Public Library