Several buffalo hides are sewn together to make the teepee cover
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The kind of houses that the Blackfoot tribe live in is a teepee. A teepee is made of three to four main poles and about 20 other poles for support. For the cover of the teepee it took as few as 14 and as many as 42 buffalo hides sewn together with sinew. They had a hole in the top for the smoke to get out of, and their door was on the east to shelter for wind
The shape of a teepee is a cone.
nomad Indians made tepee
To live in a teepee means up to 3 people to a small teepee, 4-6 in a medium teepee, 7-8 in a large teepee, and if the size keeps going, the numbers grow larger.
There are 3 main parts of a good teepee. These three parts are the hide, the wooden sticks, and the rope.