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Teepees last four or five years, but owing the rotting of the lower portion of the skins decrease in size --

the entrance & building a fire it becomes a snug refuge from the inclement winters. The tipi or skin lodge is (tender tilia or lynn) peculiar to the western or Dacotah branch of the Indian race, the Algonquin having lived in bark-wigwams. The peculiar form of war club used by the western Indian was unknown to the Algonquin, as well as that style of dress in which the long fringes of skin, falling from the arms & leggins & adapted to the adornment of the horseman. The Algonquin dress was pedestrian, the Dacotah equestrian.

The Winnebago leggins are loose & gaitered & like the Sioux who do not gaiter are gartered below the knee. The Chippeway garter at the ankle. The Winnebago hair is never brought forward.