tepee v. wigwam

A tepee (also spelt teepee and tipi) is a portable conical tent made of wooden poles covered with animal hide or bark. Tepees were used as dwellings by nomadic Native American Plains Indians.

A wigwam is a domed house consisting of a ring of saplings that are set in the ground, bent over, bound at the top, and covered with matting, skins, or bark. Wigwam is an Algonquian term applied to such structures in the American Northeast; in the Southwest, they are called wickiups. Wigwams aren’t portable, and require more time to erect than tepees.

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