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

They sat facing each other in front of the shaman's wickiup in the center of the British Band's winter camp.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert

She gathered up some twigs, brought them into the wickiup and added them to the fire.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert

At last the Coyote-Spirit grew so bold that when there was no one passing on the trail he would go and walk up and down in front of the wickiup.

From The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Austin, Mary Hunter