Tipi and Taos Drum store - S. of Ranchos de Taos NM

2003 -12-31 5:28 p T IM000163.JPG -- Note entrance is an oval, not a triangle.

2003 -12-31 6:47 p P1040278.JPG -- Tipis are made in Oregon, but are offered for sale through this store in Taos. The package includes the poles.

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2003 -12-31 6:49 p P1040282.JPG -- Looking straight up from the middle of the floor of the Tipi.

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2003 -12-31 6:51 p T P1040283.JPG -- stakes inside attached to line that ties the poles together, to hold Tipi down, and keep it from blowing away -- Note that it is off-center to allow a small campfire to be lit in the middle of the Tipi. This one does not have the inside liner attached. If it was, there would be cloth coming up from the floor about 5 feet on the inside, attached to a rope looped around each pole at that height.

2003 -12-31 6:51 p P1040284.JPG -- Looking East across the plain into which the Rio Grande has cut a gorge.