The other tipis served as club houses for the children.
It was created as a circle of sacred cedar posts sunk in the ground and angled together at the top like a "tipi".
They erect tipis, organize pow wows, offer arts and crafts, and re-enact elements of their traditional lifestyle.
Many ledger artists worked with ethnologists, by documenting shield and tipi designs, ethnobotanical information, winter counts, dance customs and regalia, and other cultural information.
They used the buffalo hides to make their dwellings and temporary tipis.
The prairie dogs were also destroying the tipi rings and sweat lodges placed at the top of the pishkun.
On temporary expeditions they used the ordinary buffalo-skin tipi or brush shelter.
The diameter at the base of each tipi is 14 ft, and they are 32 ft in height.
