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  2. Tipi - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Wigwam - Wikipedia

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    Similar domed tents are also used by the Bushmen and Nama people and other indigenous peoples in Southern Africa. The traditional semi-permanent dwelling of the Sámi people of Northern Europe was the goahti (also known as a gamme or kota). In terms of construction, purpose and longevity, it represents a close equivalent to a North American ...

  4. Lavvu - Wikipedia

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    Tipi - The Native American tipi is visually similar to the lavvu but has a different cut to the fabric and a slightly different pole structure and placement. Chum (tent) - The peoples of northern Ural, northern Siberia and the Tyvan Todzhans of southern Siberia have a tent structure that is similar in design and often much larger than the lavvu ...

  5. Sweat lodge - Wikipedia

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    Preceding the lawsuit, Native American experts on sweat lodges criticized the reported construction and conduct of the lodge as not meeting traditional ways ("bastardized", "mocked" and "desecrated"). Indian leaders expressed concerns and prayers for the dead and injured. The leaders said the ceremony is their way of life [2] and not a religion.

  6. Shaking tent ceremony - Wikipedia

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    Shaking tents could be a lodge or a teepee used to summon spirits. Shaking tent ceremony is a ritual of some Indigenous people in North America that is used to connect the people with the spirit realm and establish a connection and line of communication between the spirit world and the mortal world.

  7. Tupiq - Wikipedia

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    The tupiq [1] (dual: tupiik, [2] plural: tupiit, [3] Inuktitut syllabics: ᑐᐱᖅ [4]) is a traditional Inuit tent made from seal [5] or caribou [6] skin. An Inuk was required to kill five to ten ugjuk [1] [7] (bearded seals) to make a sealskin tent. When a man went hunting he would bring a small tent made out of five ugjuit.

  8. Tent - Wikipedia

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    Roman Army leather tents (centre left), as depicted on Trajan's Column in Rome (photo of plaster casts). A form of tent called a teepee or tipi, noted for its cone shape and peak smoke hole, was also used by Native American tribes and Aboriginal Canadians of the Plains Indians since ancient times, variously estimated from 10,000 to 4,000 years BC.

  9. Wetu - Wikipedia

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    A wetu is a domed hut, used by some north-eastern Native American tribes such as the Wampanoag. [1] They provided shelter, sometimes seasonal or temporary, for families near the wooded coast for hunting and fishing. They were made out of sticks of a red cedar frame covered with either tree bark or mats made from grass or reeds.

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