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An
Apache
Wickiup
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The
Apache made their homes in wickiups,
also referred to as a "wigwam." These domed shelters were a single
room dwelling that were used not only by the
Apache but by
other Native American tribes. The structures were formed with a frame
of wooden arched poles and covered with various kinds of brush,
including grass, bark, rushes, reeds or hides of cloth. As the
Apache were
nomadic, they simply burned them when they moved on, building another
at their next camp.
Most
Apache groups
did not use traditional hide-covered teepee, though cone-shaped brush
covered structures were sometimes used especially during girls'
puberty rite ceremonies. Among the Eastern
Chiricahua,
however, the tepee was more common and was better made, though it
never became the favored form. Covered with cloth or hides, the
Eastern
Chiricahua
didn't drag the poles of the teepee when they moved. They put them on
the front of the saddle, as many as they could carry.
Apache
Teepees in
Arizona, 1907.
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Also See:
Apache - The Fiercest Warriors in the
Southwest
Apache Legends
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