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TIOU TIPI 



[b. a. e. 



the place of the Erie people, there where 

 many (beaver) dams are." (j. n. b. h.) 



Erige Tejocharontiong.— Hennepin, Nouvelle 

 Decouverte, 49, 1697. Tahsagrondie. — Colden ( 1727) , 

 Hist. Five Nations, 2'2, 1747. Tahsahgrondie. — 

 Douglass, Summary, i, 180, 1755. Te'o'chanon- 

 tian.— ,Jes. Rel. (1653), Thwaites ed., xxxviii, 181, 

 1899. Teughsaghrontey. — London Doc. (1764) in 

 N. Y. Doe. Col. Hist., VI, 899, 1855. Tieugsachron- 

 dio.—LondonDoc. (1701), ibid., IV,908,1854. Tircksa- 

 rondia, — London Doc. (1688), ibid., 532. Tjeughsa- 

 ghrondie.— London Doc. (1701), ibid., 909. Tjeug- 

 saghronde. — Ibid. Tjguhsaghrondy. — Ibid., 892. 

 Tjughsaghrondie. — London Doc. (1702), ibid., 979. 

 Toghsaghrondie.— London Doe. (1770), ibid., V, 694, 

 1855. Tonsagroende. — Ibid., .543. Trongsagroende.— 

 LondonDoc. (1720), ibid. Tuchsaghrondie. — Ibid., 

 VI, 105, 1S55. Tucksagrandie. — Ibid., 103. Tuigh- 

 saghrondy. — London Doe. (1701), ibid., iv, 891, 

 1854. Tusachrondie,— Limdon Doc. (1726), ibid.,v, 

 792, 1855. Tushsaghrendie,— Ibid., VI, 107, 1855. 

 Tussaghrondie.— Ibid., 99. Tyschsarondia. — Lon- 

 don Doe. (1688), ibid., Ill, 536, 18.53. Wawiaghten- 

 hook.— London Doc. (1754), ibid., vi, 899, 18.55. 



Tiou. A people on lower Mississippi 

 and Yazoo rs., mentioned only during 

 the earlier periods of French colonization 

 in Louisiana. Tradition states that they 

 were once very numerous, but that hav- 

 ing been vanquished by the Chickasaw, 

 they tied from their ancient seats, ap- 

 parently on the upper Yazoo v., to the 

 Natchez, who protected them and allowed 

 them to form a distinct village. It is re- 

 corded in Margry (Dec, iv, 429, 1880) 

 that the Bayogoula having prior to Mar. 

 1700 killed in a conflict all the Mugulasha 

 within their reach, called in families of 

 the Acolapissa and Tiou to occupy their 

 deserted fields and lodges. In 1731, 

 shortly after the Natchez uprising, they 

 are said to have been cut off entirely by 

 the Quapaw, and although this is doubt- 

 ful, they are not heard of again. Du 

 Pratz informs us that they possessed the 

 r sound in their language. If this is 

 true their language was not Muskhogean 

 proper, Natchez, or Siouan, but formed 

 one group with Tunica, Koroa, Yazoo, 

 and perhaps Grigra. (j. k. s. ) 



little Tioux.— Dumont in French, Hist. Coll. La., 

 V, 59, 1853. Sioux.— .Tefferys, Fr. Dom. Am., pt. I, 

 145,1761 (misprint). Teoux. — McKenneyand Hall, 

 Ind. Tribes, in, 81, 18.54. Theoux.— Boudinot, 

 Star in the West, 129, 1816. Thioux.— Jefferys, op. 

 cit., 162. Thoucoue.— Iberville (1699) in Margry, 

 D6c., IV, 179, 1880. Thysia. — Ibid. Tiaoux. — 

 Romans, Florida, I, 101, 1775. Tihiou. — Coxe, 

 Carolana, map, 1741. Tiou.— La Salle (ca. 1680) 

 in Margry, D^c, ii, 198, 1877. Tioux.— Dumont, 

 La., I, 135, 1753. Toaux. — Baudry des Lozieres, 

 Voy. Louisiane, 245, 1802 (misspelled forTeaux). 



Tipi (from the Siouan root ti 'to dwell', 

 pi 'used for'). The ordinary conical 

 skin dwelling of the Plains tribes and of 

 some of those living farther to the n. w\ 

 The tipi must be distinguished from the 

 wigwam, wikiup, hogan, and other types 

 of residence structures in use in other 

 sections of the country. 



The tipi consisted of a circular frame- 

 work of poles brought together near the 

 top and covered with dressed buffalo 

 skins sewn to form a single piece, which 

 was kept in place by means of wooden 



pins and ground pegs. It commonly 

 had about 20 jaoles, averaging 25 ft in 

 length, each pole being hewn from a 

 stout sapling, usually cedar, trimmed 

 down to the heart wood. The poles 

 were set firmly in the ground so as 

 to make a circle of about 15 ft in 

 diameter, and were held together above 

 by means of a hide rope wound around 

 the whole bunch about 4 ft from the 

 upper ends, leaving these ends pro- 

 jecting above the tipi covering. There 

 were 3 main poles, or with some tribes 4, 

 upon which the weight of the others 

 rested. The cover consisted of from 15 



TIPI DIAGRAM (aiowa Standard): « Cover (average IS to 

 20 buffalo hides), b Poles (average 20, besides 

 2 outside poles), c Two outside poles, or flap 

 poles, d Flaps (for diverting draft and smoke). 

 e " Ears" or pockets at topof flaps for inserting 

 ends of outside poles. / Pins for pinning to- 

 gether the two sides of tipi cover (average 8, 

 i. e., 2 below door and above), g Pegs for 

 holding edge of tipi cover to ground (average 

 20). h Door, usually a skin kept stretched by 

 means of a transverse stick, or by a hoop frame, 

 Inside, in the middle of the floor, is the fire-pit, 

 There are names for special poles, for orna 

 ments and other attachments, etc, 



to 18 dressed buffalo skins cut and fitted 

 in such a way that, when sewn together 

 with sinew thread, they formed a single 

 large slieet of nearly semicircular shajie. 

 This was lifted into place against the 

 framework by means of a special pole at 

 the back of the structure, after which 

 the two ends were brought around to the 

 front and there fastened by means of 8 

 or 10 small wooden pins running upward 

 from the doorway nearly to the crossing 

 of the poles. The lower border was 

 kept in place by means of pegs driven 

 into the ground at a distance of about 2 



