Tipi pics

[Historian]

Ute - 1860?


Lakota - 1868


Arapaho - 1869


Assiniboine - no date


Crow - 1870


Kiowa - 1870?


Plains Cree - 1871


Plains Cree - no date


Plains Cree - no date


Lakota - 1876


Ute - 1878


Blood - no date


Blackfoot - no date


Blackfoot - no date


Blackfoot - no date


Flathead - no date


Northern Cheyenne - 1880?


Northern Cheyenne - no date


Dakota - 1880?


Dakota - 1880?


Dakota - 1880?


Dakota - 1880?


Dakota - 1880?


Dakota - 1880?


Dakota - 1880?


Dakota - 1880?


Dakota - no date


Lakota - 1881


Dakota - 1882


Lakota - 1882


Lakota - 1882


Lakota - 1882


Lakota - 1882


Lakota - 1882


Lakota - 1885?


Shoshoni - 1885?


Flathead - 1885?


Dakota - 1890


Nez Perce - 1890


Ioway - 1890


Ute - 1890


Ute - 1890


Lakota - 1890


Lakota - 1890


Lakota - 1891


Lakota - 1891


Lakota - 1891


Lakota - 1891


Lakota - 1891


Northern Cheyenne - 1896


Northern Cheyenne - no date


Ute - 1899


Ute - 1900


Lakota - 1900


Lakota - 1900?


Blackfoot - no date


Blackfoot - no date


Blackfoot - no date


Blackfoot - no date


Blackfoot - no date


Crow - no date


Omaha - no date


Omaha - no date


Ute - 1901


Kootenai - 1901


Crow - 1905


Nez Perce - 1906


Flathead - 1907


Flathead - 1907


Crow - 1907


Assiniboine - 1908


Ute - 1908


Crow - 1908


Crow - 1908


Crow - 1908


Crow - 1908


Crow - 1908


Dakota - 1908


Dakota - 1908


Atsina - 1908


Blackfoot - 1908


Blackfoot - 1908


Blackfoot - 1908


Blackfoot - 1909


Blackfoot - 1909


Kootenai - 1909


Plains Cree - 1909


Crow - 1909


Crow - 1909


Flathead - 1909


Flathead - 1910?


Osage - 1910?


Piegan - 1910


Piegan - 1910


Flathead - 1910


Shoshoni - 1910


Shoshoni - 1910


Crow - 1910?


Crow - 1910?


Crow - 1910?


Crow - 1910?


Crow - 1911


Blackfoot - 1911


Ute - 1912


Ute - 1913


Ute - 1913


Crow - 1919


Crow - 1920


Crow - 1920


Cheyenne? - 1920


Blackfoot - no date


Ute - 1923


Crow - 1924


Crow - 1924


Crow - 1925


Crow - 1927


Crow - 1927


Sarcee - 1927


Blood - 1927


Blackfoot - 1930


Plains Cree - 1930


Ute - 1934


Bannock - 1940


Blackfoot - 1942


Crow - 1943


Plains Cree - 1944


Crow - 1946


Crow - 1947


Blackfoot - 1949


Crow - 1950

[Dietmar]

Wonderful collection!!

Thank you.

[wolfgang911]

holy tatanka what a collection! thanks for all that work hintamaheca.
I noted only very little buffalo hide tipis even in the oldest pix.
Which tribe held on the longest to tipi for day to day life in majority in your opinion?
many pix seem to be from special summer occasions after the 20's I guess, but the Ute and Plains Cree show year round use after 1930.
thanx!

[wolfgang911]

as the size of their reservation got smaller as we all know sizes of blackfoot tipis had to adapt ;D
[img src="[/img]http://www.lib.montana.edu/digital/nadb/nadb-jpegs/10.95.jpg"]
sorry just training with those libraries url and how it works !

[wolfgang911]

www.lib.montana.edu/digital/nadb/nadb-jpegs/10.95.jpg

[Historian]

Mar 23, 2009 17:12:24 GMT -5 @wolfgang911 said:

holy tatanka what a collection! thanks for all that work hintamaheca.
I noted only very little buffalo hide tipis even in the oldest pix.
Which tribe held on the longest to tipi for day to day life in majority in your opinion?
many pix seem to be from special summer occasions after the 20's I guess, but the Ute and Plains Cree show year round use after 1930.
thanx!

After the mass slaughter of buffalo heards between 1860 and 1870, it became more and more difficult to continue making lodges from tanned buffalo hide. With the introduction of lightweight canvas material, the tipi slowly evolved to larger sizes.

On some northern Reservations, tipis were used as the primary shelter year round, or at least throughout the summer months until the late 1930s and early 1940s. Especially being used for special ceremonies and dances.

[Historian]

Mar 23, 2009 17:45:06 GMT -5 @wolfgang911 said:

As I understand it, this photo shows a sample of a group of model lodges commisioned as a historical record, showing the special painted designs of the twelve ceremonial tipis to house the twelve medicine bundles used in the annual Blackfoot Sundance.

[wolfgang911]

thanx again for explanation on the small tipi picture I thouht was funny
in your collection the latest year round tipi seems from the ute in 1934 and bannock 1940.
I would be curious to read which tribe held on the longest to the tipi and so, sort of, to the traditional ways.

[emilylevine]

Here's a few more:
www.tipis-tepees-teepees.com/tipi_gallery.php?i=11

[ceyawi33]

Mar 27, 2009 16:15:15 GMT -5 Historian said:

Mar 23, 2009 17:12:24 GMT -5 @wolfgang911 said:

holy tatanka what a collection! thanks for all that work hintamaheca.
I noted only very little buffalo hide tipis even in the oldest pix.
Which tribe held on the longest to tipi for day to day life in majority in your opinion?
many pix seem to be from special summer occasions after the 20's I guess, but the Ute and Plains Cree show year round use after 1930.
thanx!

After the mass slaughter of buffalo heards between 1860 and 1870, it became more and more difficult to continue making lodges from tanned buffalo hide. With the introduction of lightweight canvas material, the tipi slowly evolved to larger sizes.

On some northern Reservations, tipis were used as the primary shelter year round, or at least throughout the summer months until the late 1930s and early 1940s. Especially being used for special ceremonies and dances.

[ceyawi33]

This is a great collection of tipi's!!! I am a Tipi maker and many style are never seen, like the Sioux side pin or tipi's of hide with lacing pins back and front. They were before the white settlers came and they were a more permanent dwelling. thanks for posting this.

[ceyawi33]

many of the tipi's shown have tribal affiliation and dates by them. I found that many of those were wrong. Each tribe, such as Sioux Cheyenne, crow, Nez Pierce, had an individual style of tipi. Flaps, pole configuration, doors, and designs. In addition pole lengths were different, and flaps had extensions on the bottom. Sioux flaps were long and narrow as compared to the Cheyenne flaps which were wider at the top and shorter in length but had a longer extension. the Cheyenne, Sioux, Crow, Blackfoot, ect used inner doors and thick ozans in the winter to protect from cold and snow. grass was gathered and then placed between outer canvas and inner liner for insulation. The tipi is a complex thing however it serves well still to this day. questions just ask me.

[Nightune]

Mar 22, 2009 11:38:21 GMT -5 Historian said:

Blackfoot - no date


The tall man in the middle of this picture is chief Joe Crowfoot. I do not know the date though.

[juan]

Just a question how can i view the picture

[Diane Merkel]

Good question! ProBoards is not allowing links to websites that do not have a security certificate; all links need to start with "https://" or they will not show.

I tried to find a couple of the photos from the first post in this thread, but it appears they have (once again) changed the Smithsonian Institution's website and addresses. I may be able to find and restore some, but it will take time.

It would be great for those who posted to find the new web addresses for their photos and edit their posts.

If you have photos on your computer, you can always send them to Dietmar or me so we can put them on our server and give you an address to use for posts.

Best wishes,
Diane