Native American Indian Pictures and History: tipi

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Friday, November 6, 2015

Color Images of the Cherokee Indian Tribe on the Reservation in North Carolina

Cherokee Indians photographed on a reservation in North Carolina.

Cherokee Indians ready to the Green Corn Dance on a reservation in North Carolina.

Cherokee Indian woman with pottery photographed on a reservation in North Carolina

Cherokee Indian family photographed on the reservation in North Carolina.

Artwork displayed on this Cherokee Indian tipi photographed on a reservation in North Carolina.

Friday, March 27, 2015

Two Oto Sioux Medicine Men

Two Oto Sioux medicine men photographed in front of a tipi. Photo believed to have been taken in the 1930s.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Blackfoot Indian Tipi with Buffalo

Unknown date or location of this photo believed to be of a Blackfoot Indian village. Note the swastika on the blanket

Monday, October 20, 2014

Rare Historic Colorized Photographs of the Crow Indians

Crow Indian women photogrpahed on horseback outside of their camp in Montana

Crow Indian women photographed outside of their camp in Montana

Crow Indian photographed around the turn of the century in Montana

Colorized photo of a Crow Indian woman

Crow Indian dancers taken around the turn of the century in Montana

Friday, August 22, 2014

Blackfeet/Blackfoot Indian Tipis

1890 Photo of Women and Children Outside of Their Tipi at Glacier National Park, Montana

Blackfeet/Blackfoot Indian Tipi Interior From About 1910

Blackfoot/Blackfeet Indian Children Photographed in Alberta, Canada, 1895

Early 1900s Photo of a Blackfoot Indian Family and Tipi in Montana

Blackfoot Indian Tipis Photographed in Alberta, Canada in the early 1900s

Blackfoot Indian Woman Photographed in Alberta, Canada in the Early 1900s

Friday, August 8, 2014

Blackfeet Indian Tipis and Village Picture Gallery

1912 photo of a couple and their tipi

Blackfeet Indian Tipi in Alberta, Canada 1926

Blackfeet Indian village in Montana - 1933

Blackfoot Indian camp in Alberta, Canada taken in 1910

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

American Indian Skin Lodges or Tents

American Indian Skin Lodges or Tents.

The tent was used when the people were migrating, and also when they were traveling in search of the buffalo. It was also the favorite abode of a household during the winter season, as the earth lodge was generally erected in an exposed situation, selected on account of comfort in the summer. The tent could be pitched in the timber or brush, or down in wooded ravines, where the cold winds never had full sweep. Hence, many Indians abandoned their houses in winter and went into their tents, even when they were of canvas.

Fig. 308.—Omaha tent (from a photograph by W. H. Jackson).

The tent was commonly made of ten or a dozen dressed or tanned buffalo skins. It was in the shape of a sugar loaf, and was from 10 to [12 feet high, 10 or 15 feet in diameter at the bottom, and about a foot and a half in diameter at the top, which served as a smokehole (ʇihuʞaⁿ). Besides the interior tent poles (ʇici—3, figure 309) and the tent skin (ʇiha—1), the tent had the ʇiȼumaⁿhaⁿ, or the place where the skins were fastened together above the entrance (4). The ʇiȼumaⁿhaⁿ was fastened with the ʇihuȼubaxaⁿ(5), which consisted of sticks or pieces of hide thrust crosswise through the holes in the tent skins. The bottom of the tent was secured to the ground by pins (ʇihuȼugadaⁿ—6) driven through holes (ʇihugaqȼuge) in the bottom of the skins, made when the latter were tanned and before they had become hard. The entrance (ʇijebe) was [generally opposite the quarter from which the wind was blowing. A door flap (ʇijebegȼaⁿ—7) hung over the entrance; it was made of skin with the hair outside, so as to turn water, and was held taut by a stick fastened to it transversely. The bottom of the door flap was loose, but the top was fastened to the tent.

Fig. 309—Exterior parts of an Omaha tent.

The smokehole was formed by the two ʇihugabȼiⁿȼa(9), or triangular ends of tent skins, immediately above the entrance and ʇi¢umaⁿaⁿ. When there was no wind both of the ʇihugabȼiⁿȼa were kept open by means of the ʇihuȼubajiⁿ(8) or exterior tent poles, which were thrust through the ujiha, or small sacks, in the corners of the ʇihugabȼiⁿȼa. When the wind blew one of the ʇihuȼubajiⁿ was raised to the windward and the other was lowered, pulling its skin close to the tent and leaving an opening for the escape of the smoke; but if the wind came directly against the entrance both the flaps were raised, closing the smokehole to prevent the wind from blowing down it. When the wind blew the people used nandiȼagaspe to keep the bottom of each tent skin in place. These consisted of twisted grass, sticks, stones, or other heavy objects.

Figure 310 represents the tent of [P]ejequde, an Omaha. The banners or standards, which were carried by the leaders of a war party or a party going on a dancing tour, are depicted with their decorations of strips of red and blue Indian cloth. Sometimes these standards were ornamented with feathers instead of with cloth. Each standard could be used in four war expeditions.

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No totem posts were in use among the Omaha. The tent of the principal man of each gens was decorated on the outside with his gentile badge, which was painted on each side of the entrance as well as on the back of the tent.1 The furniture of the sacred tents resembled that of the ordinary ones.

Before the introduction of canvas tents by the whites no needles or thread were used by the Siouan tribes. The women used sinew of the deer or buffalo instead of thread, and for needles they had awls made of elk horn.

Since there were no outbuildings, public granaries, or other structures of this description, each household stored away its own grain and other provisions. There were no special tribal or communal dwellings; but sometimes two or more households occupied a single earth lodge. When a council was held, it took place in the earth lodge of one of the head chiefs, or else two or three common tents were united, making one large one.2 There were no public baths, as the Missouri river was near, and they could resort to it whenever they desired. Dance houses were improvised either of earth lodges or skin tents.