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He chose to build the wickiup, a traditional wood-framed structure used by American Indians for shelter and ceremonial purposes.
I decided to turn the debris into a wickiup, a stick-frame shelter that looks like an upside-down bowl.
We come to a tiny canvas wickiup, a dozen feet across and five feet high at the top of the dome.

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Examples of wickiup

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The dome-shaped wickiups where the villagers lived were softly beautiful in the early morning light.
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He turned his back on the burning wickiups.
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Only the sounder clicking iron jargon and the thunder shaking the wickiup like a reed filled the ears of the men about him.
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In twenty minutes twenty men were running as many ways through the storm, and a live engine boomed under the wickiup window.
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Even now she prepares herself in the wickiup.
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You should have stayed in the wickiup, my daughter; you are too young to go seeking magic medicine.
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The women went into the wickiup and covered their heads with their blankets.
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More wickiups than two make a very great number.
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If thatched with brush and grass, a wickiup.
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As for the wickiup itself, it was well-enough built, but lacking in windows and quite unfinished as to the interior.
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A series of ledges brought him up to a small plateau where scrub wood could be used to build the wickiups.
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Without a word or a backward glance the tall chief mounted and rode at a walk in the direction of his wickiup.
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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.
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The women sat by the wickiups weaving baskets of willow and stems of fern.
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But a greater roar followed shortly after dusk, when the drunken bucks began to make night hideous over among the wickiups.
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