The Tipi: Traditional Native American Shelter - Softcover

Hungry Wolf, Adolf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570671745 ISBN 13: 9781570671746

Publisher: Native Voices, 2006

Synopsis

Gathered into one volume are the most fascinating photographs of tipis and the North American cultures that cread them. The text presents an in-depth look at the use of tipis from historic sources.

About this title

About the Author:

Adolf Hungrywolf is the author of numerous books on native culture including Indian Tribes of the Northern Rockies, Legends Told, Powwow Dancers and Craftsworkers Handbook, and Traditional Dress. He has a volume of vintage photographs gathered over a 40-year period that are part of a lifelong project documenting Native cultures and western American history.

From Booklist:

A prolific Native author, Hungrywolf now presents his extensive and historically significant collection of photographs of tipis, a structure used by many North American tribes, some as early as the 1500s. The fruits of 40 years of research, these extraordinary photographs are accompanied by commentary by Natives, anthropologists, and Indian agents explaining how these traditional dwellings were built and used by different tribes. A Hidatsa woman born in 1840, for instance, relates her vivid memories of how her people set up their tipis in a new camp to accommodate different terrains and wind directions, describing which hides were used for summer and winter tipis and how these hides were painstakingly processed. Included are photographs of medicine and peyote tipis, burial tipis, Ojibwa bark lodges, Ute tipis, and traditional and intricately painted tipis of diverse tribes, including the Sioux, Kiowa, Plains Cree, Cheyenne, Apache, and Blackfoot. Hungrywolf concludes with instructions on how to construct a tipi, including plans drawn by a researcher who spent time with the Hidatsa in the early 1900s. Deborah Donovan
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About this edition

• Publisher: Native Voices
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1570671745
• ISBN 13: 9781570671746
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224