aug 27 2023
Nobody came up with my 27 foot tipi poles yet...my best guess is they are in the arena and there were adult dogs turned out in there so no one wanted to go looking for tipi poles.... I happened to look up “nomadic tipi”- and got to this guy telling of his spiritual connection with the tipi world. Which sounds exactly like what the vereran group would like to establish off there on our “A” field – with big gate to 1000 acres of Willowdale state forest.
There is noting quite like napping in a tipi ... looking up into the smoke curling out the hole in the top...—when we had the big one set up, it was very possible to have “meeetings” in the thing.-----there are amazing details—and skipping too many can caused issues
Firstly the outside skin does not go all the way to the ground- but there is a 4” gap—that inside curtain like thing does go to the ground which means there is a 4” space for draft/ to come in – up—and out— taking the smoke with it.----- or in the summer... it is the airconditioning draft... – add the smoke flaps—which are the 2 flaps held out front with 2 longer poles--- there is a whole science of tipi management.-----you enter a tipi and go to the left--- passing the firewood – chairs on the ground around the back and exit the other side= passing the “kitchen equipment”
A good tipi woman can set up her tipi in an hour ( I ain’t there yet). --- to divorce her husband all she has to do is throw him out of her tipi... ( no lawyers there !!)
Now consider. Moving the camp---horses drag the poles laden with the tipi--- but who gets to carry the fire??? There are no zip lighters or matches////
There are sooooo many details of Indian culture—we could use many of those back again...the bible of tipi living is by Gladys Lauben
Have at it--- and there is only one way to put it up... you get those first 3 poles wrong, you can never recover....
