| Show A primitive Sh shelter philter ilter ahila attached to a military li aae dialon against the sioux in wyoming byomin g in hi i 1877 1 saw those indians construct at the various camps we made what I 1 take to be the most primitive form of house built ly by human hands it was simply a shelter or tepee as they called it made with the green boughs cut from the cottonwood trees without any especial preparation of the ground they implanted tha cut ends endi of the limbs in two parallel rows about eight feet long I 1 and five feet apart the tops were adroitly bent over the space and fastened together along the tha middle line thus creating a shelter open at bota ends these tepees were merely intended for two or three men to sleep in all the cooking and other arrangements range ments being performed outside B R W M X D in popular science monthly |
