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Article: The West's original mobile home.(teepee)(Brief Article)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Historical, practical, and lightweight, the tepee is making a comeback
* On a cool fall evening, my fiancee and I threw another log on a campfire, stared up at twinkling stars, and listened to the sound of a trickling stream a few feet away. All this took place inside our quarters for the night--a 20-foot-diameter tepee that architect Jim Dummit has nestled in his backyard in San Luis Obispo, California. In warmer months, Dummit uses the 20-year-old structure for dining and for guests. When winter comes, he simply rolls up the canvas shell and stows the 15 shaved-bark poles that form its skeletal frame.
The word tepee, or tipi, comes from two Sioux ...