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  2. Tipi - Wikipedia

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    A typical family tipi is a conical, portable structure with two adjustable smoke flaps, multiple poles (historically from 12 to 25 ft or 3.7 to 7.6 m long) called lodge poles. Lewis H. Morgan noted that tipi frames were 13 to 15 poles that were 4.6 to 5.5 metres (15–18 ft) tall. These poles, "after being tied together at the small ends, are ...

  3. Concrete Interstate Tipis of South Dakota MPS - Wikipedia

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    Each tipi features eight prestressed concrete poles laid against each other in a spiral, meeting nearly at the top and leaving the ends unjoined. At the meeting point, the poles are notched and secured together by a steel plate. [5] The meeting point creates a 3 ft (0.91 m) octagonal gap of open space. Each pole weighs 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 tons. Some of ...

  4. Sibley tent - Wikipedia

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    U.S. patent 14,740, showing Sibley's claim for his tent.. The Sibley tent was invented by the American military officer Henry Hopkins Sibley and patented in 1856. Of conical design, it stands about 12 feet (3.7 m) high and 18 feet (5.5 m) in diameter. [1]

  5. Travois - Wikipedia

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    [10]: 9 When the women put up a tipi, they placed an upright horse travois against a tipi pole and used it as a ladder so they could attach the two upper sides of the lodge cover with wooden pins. [11]: xi A travois leaned against a branch of a tree functioned as a simple burial scaffold for a dead Crow baby tied to it. [12]: 57

  6. Smoke flaps - Wikipedia

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    Smoke flap ventilation is used on tipi (teepee') housing of the Native America Plains Indians by tradition, both historically and on modern ceremonial tipis. The tipi smoke flap vent is attached in a continuous piece to the cured hides that cover the exterior of the large teepee housing structure.

  7. Kiowa - Wikipedia

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    The main form of shelter used by the Kiowa was the tipi or skin lodge. Tipis were made from bison hides shaped and sewn together in a conical shape. Wooden poles called lodge poles from 12–25 feet (3.7–7.6 m) in length are used as support for the lodge. Lodge poles are harvested from red juniper and lodgepole pine. [26]

  8. Tipi ring - Wikipedia

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    The general pattern of a tipi (also "tepee") ring is an east-facing entrance, where there are no stones, and a heavily anchored side with extra stones for protection against prevailing winds, often on the northwestern side of the ring. Hearths found in the center of tipi rings suggest a winter encampment.

  9. RTKL Associates - Wikipedia

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    The firm was founded by Archibald C. Rogers in his grandmother’s basement in Annapolis, Maryland. [2] Francis T. Taliaferro joined shortly afterwards. [3] In 1949, the pair hired Charles E. Lamb, whose design for the Anne Arundel County Girl Scouts Teepee Lodge gained the firm national attention by winning an award from the American Institute of Architects.

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