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Wigwam vs Wickiup - What's the difference?

wigwam | wickiup |

As nouns the difference between wigwam and wickiup

is that wigwam is a dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States while wickiup is a domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States.

wigwam

English

(wikipedia wigwam)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.
  • Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world.
  • * 1813 , John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted... , volume 1, page 403:
  • Their houses or wigwams , which they call carbets'', are built as I have already described those of the negroes; but instead of being covered with the leaves of the manicole-tree, they are covered with the leaves of rattans or jointed canes, here called ''tas ,
  • * 1845 edition, Charles Darwin, Journal and Remarks'' (''The Voyage of the Beagle ):
  • The Fuegian wigwam resembles, in size and dimensions, a haycock. It merely consists of a few broken branches stuck in the ground, and very imperfectly thatched on one side with a few tufts of grass and rushes.

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    wickiup

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States.
  • * 1992 , Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses :
  • At that time there were still indians camped on the western plains and late in the day he passed in his riding a scattered group of their wickiups propped upon that scoured and trembling waste.

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