Tipi

Design

A tipi is composed of long supported stems of wood the ones on the other then covered with Peau X of animals. Used by the Indiens of the Plains, the tipi or teepee (of the Lakota Tipi which wants to say habitat, house) is regarded as the most clever shelter that the mankind invented. As opposed to what one could believe, it is a shelter roomy, clean, which protects from the cold or heat thanks to a ventilation system. It is enough approximately to 10 has 12 skins of Bison to make a tipi intermediate size (either a surface of 5,50 meters to 6,10 meters for 20 to 25 poles, cash 3 to 4 basic poles). The number of poles used changes with each tribe. Some tipis could be made of 50 skins and sheltered the councils and tribal meetings. After one year, the tipis were to be repaired, see entirely reconstituted because the skin was refined with time. The decoration of a tipi varies according to the tribe and also according to the history which one wants to tell. The woman is traditionally owner of the tipi.

The reinforcement is often made of 13 poles (symbolic system number), which can be painted in red. The tent is fixed on the ground by stakes or stones. One enters by a door in decorated skin, on which figure the totem of the owner. The tipi can be also decorated with scalp and hunting trophies. The interior is rather simple and fulfills the requirements of the wandering life. One sleeps on a berth in skin of bison or bear, extended on a diagrid of braided snap rings. The hearth is located at the center; it is surrounded by stones and heating a container posed on a tripod out of wooden. Furniture is composed of bags in skin, trunks with meat and potteries.

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