In an effort to bring long overdue credit to the Native People who created it we offer a model of the tipi.
We call it “The Model of a Masterpiece”

Definition of MASTERPIECE

1: a work done with extraordinary skill; especially: a supreme intellectual or artistic achievement

2: a piece of work presented to a medieval guild as evidence of qualification for the rank of master

It is accurate and is built to a scale of one inch equals one foot. Made of fine quality paper and precise machined wooden poles and pins. It is lighted from within, like the original, from a hand blown glass “fire” and, like the original, glows when the light is low outside.

“No man’s imagination, with all the aids of description that can be given to it, can ever picture the beauty and wildness of scenes that may be daily witnessed in this romantic country; of hundreds of these graceful youths, without a care to wrinkle, or a fear to disturb the full expression of pleasure and enjoyment that beams upon their faces – their long black hair mingling with their horses’ tails, floating in the wind, while they are flying over the carpeted prairie, and dealing death with their spears and arrows, to a band of infuriated buffaloes; or their splendid procession in a war-parade, arrayed in all their gorgeous colors and trappings, moving with most exquisite grace and manly beauty, added to that bold defiance which man carries on his front, who acknowledges no superior on earth, and who is amenable to no laws except the laws of God and honour.”

Catlin, North American Indians, Vol. 1. 1832