AmerIndian plains tipis originated from a bull bison pelt with tail retained on back side of tent with attached female pelts sewn to it and smoke flaps in front representing horns, this derived from ancient mammoth-hide tents framed by debarked willow/wicker poles or defleshed long bones, with a bull mammoth pelt overlaid on top of leaf/rush shingles or rolled woven rush mats, with smoke flaps being skull-socketed tusks draped (perhaps pinned, not sewn) with pelts acting as both smoke hole cover and entryway.
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'reconstructions' of mammoth tents
http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/173025/enlarge
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ukraine+mammoth&view=detail&id=4AFC28B65F2A8190A76AC5E6449F4A46E24D477C&first=72
tipi types (imagine if constructed of mammoth pelts, bones, tusks)
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ancient+tipi&view=detail&id=5B18C43DE5F3873B9351F8CC8153A60ECE629D38&first=597
http://tatonkatradingcompany.com/graphics/Teepee_Erecting.gif
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