Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 28
INDIAN NOTES charge of the proceedings. The older or first wife apparently had nothing to say as to where the tipi was to stand, and did not assist in any way. Wife number two /selected a level spot on the prairie, tied together the small ends of three poles (tako-pitasi- … the tripod in such Fig. 6.- -The western pole is placed manner that their on the tipi cover larger ends formed a circle on the ground a little smaller than the tipi was to be (fig. 5). As it was explained, these poles are always placed "in the path of the sun," [lo]
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