Tipi ring
Tipi rings are circular patterns of stones left from an encampment of Post-Archaic,
Clusters of stones circles are often found in favorable camp-sites, near water, fuel and good hunting grounds. In many cases the clusters are organized in patterns, such as rows, circles or v-shapes. The stones were used to hold down the tipis to keep the lodge warm and dry. In some cases elaborate walls or defensive structures were built.
Tipi ring practices
They are generally found in the
Stone circles, of which tipi rings are an example, may be simply assembled rocks placed in single or multiple courses. More elaborate circles have been constructed in walls of stone or with horizontal logs and stone, possibly for a fort or corral.
Stones were replaced by wooden pegs to hold down the tents after the introduction of axes by people of European ancestry. In the Crow language the word for precolonial times literally means "when we used stones to weigh down our lodges."[4]
Blackfeet Indian Reservation study
From a study of 137 sites on the 2,000-square-mile (5,200 km2)
Sites
- Canada
- Alberta:
In 1989 there were 4,290 tipi rings recorded in the provincial inventory of archaeological sites (slightly more than 20% of all sites in the inventory).[6]
- CarmangayTipi Ring Site
- Nose Hill Park
- Suffield Tipi Rings National Historical Site
- Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
- Saskatchewan
- United States
Between
- Colorado:
- During the protohistoric and historic periods, tipi rings were created in the mountains by the Comanche people.[1]
- Northern mountain and foothills:
- Indian Mountain near Boulder[1]
- T-W Diamond site in the Rocky Mountain foothills near Fort Collins.[1]
- Northeastern plains
- Southeastern plains
- Carrizo Ranches (possibly Apache sites)[1]
- Picture Canyon of the Comanche National Grassland.
- Carrizo Ranches (possibly
- Northern mountain and foothills:
- Montana:
- Blackfeet Indian Reservation has 210 tipi ring sites over a 2000 square mile area.[5]: 2
- Canyon Ferry Reservoir area has 16 tipi ring sites within a 500 square mile area, found along the Missouri River or its tributaries or mountain valleys.[2]
- First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park
- Texas:
- Squawteat Peak (see Pecos County)
- Wyoming:
References
- ^ ISBN 1-55566-193-9.
- ^ S2CID 162306205.
- ^ What is a Medicine Wheel? Archived 2007-12-27 at the Wayback Machine Royal Alberta Museum, Government of Alberta. Retrieved December 8, 2011.
- ^ Documenting Tipi Rings along the Bad Pass Trail, Bighorn Canyon NRA. Archaeology Program, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Last updated February 18, 2009. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
- ^ .
- JSTOR 25668976.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 10, 2013. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
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