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The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use

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Besides providing all necessary details on the materials, construction, setting up, and maintenance of a tipi, this book also provides comparisons with alternate designs and why one might be better than another, and gives advice on varying the size to fit your needs. It provides all the essentials, including adjustments for various seasons and types of weather (rain, snow, and wind), layout of living and sleeping space, furniture, storage of supplies, fire building, cooking, recipes, brain tanning, making parfleche containers, and moccasins. Plus it includes a few words about a native ceremony to properly dedicate the new lodge, and describes tipi etiquette for hosts and visitors. Lots of photos, drawings and detailed diagrams are provided.

using this book helped me immensely when it came time to raise my own tipi! using only the book and my woefully average construction skills, i easily put up my 22 foot diameter tipi in the northern california woods in a few hours with minimal assistance, the first try!

the other parts of the book offer fascinating aspects related to tipi living, history and culture. a must read for any tipi enthusiast!
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heartLove, the electric tipi hippy!

The wealth of information included by the Laubins, and their heartfelt respect for the American Indian, permeate this book. Many tipi construction books these days are written by would-be hippies--but the Laubins come across as the real thing. They had real contact with the tribes who made the various designs and they understood the distinctions between them. Better yet they have done an excellent job at getting these techniques across to the reader. An excellent resource for our business and home pursuits alike and the only book on the subject we recommend.

I found this book to be an excellent source of information on the tipi. From sewing one up to living in one, this is the book you need.

The Indian Tipi includes detailed instructions for building a tipi, setting it up, and alot of other info, such as recipes, crafts, decorating your lodge, and more. Excellent!

This was an overall good book. If you have ever wanted to live someplace besides a "conventinal home" this is the only book you will need to read. It tells you how to live in a tent or in the woods, and how to have a good experince doing it. This is a good book for the occaisainal camper, or the frequent outdoors person. This is also a book that can be read again and again.

Enough said, you want to know anything about Tipis, how to build one, etc, this is THE book.

EXCELLENT INFO ON TIPI'S AND THEIR MANAGEMENT.

I don't think I have this book now. But I did when I was in high school and I loved it. I ended up being a mechanical draftsman and designer, and I still appreciate the drawings for construction found in the book. It does not have "working drawings" in the formal sense but they can be used. It even has drawings and instructions for the inner lining, "suitcases" (more like wrappers,) and backrests, and more. So I'm writing the review before re-buying this newer version of the book. I never got to build my tipi, but still want to at 55. And the way my future plans are going, I may need to do that. ;-) So I'm going back to this old friend.

I have been interested in tipis for a long time. This book allowed me to understand tipi concepts and hopefully one day build my own tipi. It is a very easy read and I flew through it. If you are interested in tipis get this book.

Great reference and history on the tipi, with everything you ever wanted to know about tipi history, construction, and erection, and then some.