0 a type of temporary home traditionally made by Native Americans in the southwestern US, which has an oval wood frame covered with grass, leaves, branches, animal skins, or cloth: --
One of the traditional dwellings of Apaches is the wickiup, which is a dwelling that can be made almost anywhere.
But a greater roar followed shortly after dusk, when the drunken bucks began to make night hideous over among the wickiups.
The women sat by the wickiups weaving baskets of willow and stems of fern.
Then he thatched this framework with bundles of fresh green cane cut near at hand, and in a few moments had a sort of wickiup.
Without a word or a backward glance the tall chief mounted and rode at a walk in the direction of his wickiup.
A series of ledges brought him up to a small plateau where scrub wood could be used to build the wickiups.
As for the wickiup itself, it was well-enough built, but lacking in windows and quite unfinished as to the interior.
If thatched with brush and grass, a wickiup.
More wickiups than two make a very great number.
