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Recent Examples of wickiupPart tipi, part wickiup, and influenced by many architectural styles, a round lodge can block wind, rain, cold, and sun.—Popular Science, 28 May 2020 The wickiup is a bit like a small tipi made from poles, brush and vegetation.—Popular Science, 28 May 2020
The short trail passes faithful re-creations of domed huts and paperbark canoes, offering a glimpse of how the Indigenous Needwonnee people lived and cultivated the land.
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Justin Meneguzzi,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Feb. 2025
Some of the 33 rooms in the 5-star Auberge de la Maison are inspired by real mountain huts while others have a more romantic style.
The school’s rodeo grounds are pocked with prairie dog holes, and roads to the mobile home park and hogans that house employees are mostly unpaved.
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Matt Krupnick,
ProPublica,
14 Oct. 2024
The Navajo elder lives in a hogan, a traditional home, built for him by neighbors in Wide Ruins, a remote town of 175 people in northeastern Arizona, about 250 miles from Phoenix.
The annual Winter Kite Festival kicks off on the lake near the shanties at noon.
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Audrey Kennedy,
Axios,
23 Jan. 2025
Deer heads are mounted on the walls, mini-toboggans are nailed to the ceiling, and lumberjack-plaid drapery evokes cabanes à sucre, or sugar shacks, traditional shanties set up in forests where the sap to be turned into maple syrup is harvested.
One home was damaged, however, and multiple outbuildings, referring to sheds, garages and buildings of the like, have been destroyed.
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Li Cohen,
CBS News,
30 Jan. 2025
In another, overlooking a Han River marina, there are three interlocking layers: water (most of the picture), hilly horizon, and, at left, a scalloped edge of rowboats and storage sheds that pulls your eyes downward.
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