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Atheists & Agnostics

onager

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2. Thanks! Loincloths and teepees...

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Sun Jun 28, 2015, 12:53 PM

Jun 2015

You're right, Frazetta's knowledge of Native Americans seems to have been limited to Western movies of the times.

Along with having them running around half-nekkid in the snow, he shows them living in teepees. The Western Plains Indians lived in teepees because they were a nomadic people and the teepee was easy to move.

East Coast tribes were settled and lived in huts, longhouses etc. just like the palefaces. I'm currently sitting near the former capital of the Cherokee Nation. Where old drawings show not a single teepee to be found.

/pedant again

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