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Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters

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Filled with insights and great respect for this horse culture. I passed a copy on to a friend of Mongolian descent who took it to Mongolia where it was received with great interest and reverence. The artwork and symbolism should be tremendously helpful to future generations of young tribal members and descendants as the memories fade ever further.

Paul Goble's TIPI: HOME OF THE NOMADIC BUFFALO HUNTERS blends traditional insights into tipi construction and development with a retelling of old-timers stories and a blending in of art to make for a fine survey of construction techniques, decorations, cultural meaning, and more. TIPI includes over a hundred color illustrations and drawings and makes for a vivid, outstanding survey of the spiritual and culture meaning of the Native American structure.

Paul Gobel books are favorites of mine. The Grandchildren ask for them to be read every visit. When I purchased a tipi we were inspired by Mr Gobel's excellent books to create a traditional design with personal meaning.
This book arrived in time for our initial use of the tipi and brought greater meaning to the experience of putting up the tipi and living in it for a week of Camp Grandma. We are looking forward to "furnishing" the tipi next summer.

I have always wondered what it would have been like to live in a tipi. This book not only explained the structure of the tipi, but also gave details about the decorations and what the pictures meant and how the particular tipi stayed with that family and clan.

I saw this book in Salt Lake City airport and then checked for it on Amazon where it was of course much cheaper.
I am intersested in heraldry and the excellent art work caught my eye.

A pleasure to look at and full of design ideaas.