Tent 'tipi', semi-circular sheet of heavy canvas, painted all black on half, half red, half black the other; a flat either side of the centre point. Door flap is wedge-shaped, piece of canvas, painted red with yellow splashes. Two internal lines of white canvas, rectangular, with 7 vertical lines of alternate red diamonds and yellow notched squares, and a line of red triangles at the top. Flag is a whole fisher skin, light green, beads in the eye, buck skin pendant at each leg. 40 wooden pegs, peeled of bark, but for smaller wooden poles; a framework for the tipi.
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