wigwam
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“I wanted to replicate the process of making a wigwam, not make an actual wigwam,” Mr. Cornelius said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
He introduced American words, some of them derived from Native American languages: skunk, squash, wigwam, hickory, opossum, lengthy, and presidential, Congress, and caucus, which were not relevant in England’s monarchy.”
From Fox News ● Apr. 14, 2020
First Baptist’s free-standing, 166-foot-high bell tower provided dramatic contrast to “Wiikiaami,” a 2017 wigwam of weathered metal panels and rebar, an homage to Indiana’s Maayami people by studio:indigenous.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2017
Parents who want something more conventional than a wigwam but less predictable than a little cottage can find designs rooted in such surprising sources as J.R.R.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2015
She plucked the bird on the roof of Alice’s wigwam and carried the meal to the box where Chup was brooding Oksi.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
According to the National Park Service, the architect Frank Redford, who had patented his design for a tepee-shaped building, disliked that word so he called them wigwams instead.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
The tribe is still recognized for some of its long-standing traditions: fur trapping, syrup making, and the construction of birch bark canoes and dome-shaped traditional homes called wigwams.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2020
They lived in wigwams, or longhouses, that looked similar to those of other tribes along the East Coast.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2018
The Chronicle says McGarry’s largest project was Michigan’s Heritage Park in Whitehall Township, an outdoor attraction with replica mastodon bones, wigwams and farmhouses representing 10,000 years of Michigan history.
From Washington Times ● May 13, 2016
She learned that they lived in wigwams, not teepees, and that they made canoes from the bark of a single white birch tree, removed in one piece so as not to kill it.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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