How we are sheltered; a geographical reader (1906)
Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co.,ltd. · leaf 51
gged by ponies from place toplace to save building a new one each time theymoved. For their homes Indians have many names,such as lodge, wigwam, tepee, wicky-up, hogan,and kan. By the Indians who five on the plains,the house is often called a tejpee. As you seeby the picture it is cone shaped. In… … Fig. 14. — A Tepee.From the Report of the National Museum, 1901. The frame of the tepee is of poles twelve tosixteen feet in length. Notice that they aretied together at the top and spread out at thebottom. The cloth is sewed in strips, and placedover the frame. The door, you see, is like theflap…
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