wickiup

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Honorary chairman was none other than Vice President Charles Curtis, whose grandmother was a Kaw and who shows his interest in Indian art by decorating his imposing office with beaded moccasins and a tribal wickiup.

From Time Magazine Archive

Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup, Matt Devlin soon stops digging and turns to honest usury instead, buying out the claims of desperate miners.

From Time Magazine Archive

Laying aside his pipe, he spread his blankets in the wickiup, and then walked quietly toward the quaking aspen.

From Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer Or, The Stranger in Camp by Ingraham, Prentiss

Looking past him, she saw in the doorway of the wickiup the small form of Eagle Feather, staring at them.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert

He never let people forget that he was the son of the great war chief Black Hawk, whose wickiup lay only a short distance from his own.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert