A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 481
, and the Iroquois constructeda triangular one with bark covering, on similarprinciples. The poles of the tipi are 7 to 20 or30 in number, and 15 to 18 feet long, tied to-gether near the small ends, while the large enisenclose a circle 10 or 1.5 feet in diameter. Ac-cording to Morgan the proper… … Tipi BcFF.\LO Hide;D.\KOTA Type. TOLLHOUSE ing the lower tiiird o])cn for a doorway and theui)i)er third for a smoke outlet. The door wasprotected by an extra skin fiistcned, only by thetop, to the tent outside, and spread by a stickfixed transversely near its ujjjier end. Some-times a loose skin…
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