Teepee's were conical shaped tent occupied by nomadic PlainsIndianswhereas long houses were large sturdy homes for the North West Coast Native American Indians.
A longhouse is long and a wigwam is round.
A wigwam or longhouse could be described as an oval hut
A wigwam is a dome shaped home that the natives lived in created by bark, deerskin or mud and grass. A wigwam can only contain one family and a longhouse is a huge area where a large amount of natives can live and sleep. It gives each of them a lot of shelter.
No, the word wigwam specifically refers to a dwelling covered in birchbark. A hut, such as those used by the Carib and Arawak people of northern Brazil, is generally made of timber, reeds or other material roofed with thatch.
The Iroquois lived in longhouses. The residents of a longhouse were all related. The related families formed a clan. There could be as many as 60 people living in a structure that could be 100 feet long. The structure was called a longhouse, because if was longer than it was wide.
Well if your talking about Native American Indian's it really depends on which Indians your talking about because they have different types shelters. :) Wigwam: a wigwam is a dome-shaped shelter that is made of bark. Made by north American Indians Longhouse: A long house is a traditional Iroquois shelter tepee: is a cone-shaped tent.
A longhouse is technically a wigwam, but a wigwam is not always a longhouse.The term "wigwam" refers to dwellings of any shape that are covered in birch-bark, including longhouses. But wigwams can also be small and cone-shaped, or small and domed.The word wigwam derives from many different Algonquian languages of the north-eastern cultural region: Mi'kmaq wikuom, Mahican wiqâhm, Ojibwe wiigiwaam and so on). All are derived from the respective words for birchbark (for example Ojibwe wiigwaas).So if a dwelling was in the eastern woodlands and was covered in birchbark it was a wigwam, no matter what shape it happened to be.See links below for images:
A wigwam is usually round-topped. The wigwam beckons, as I am sleepy.
This is a great example of a Native American wigwam.
a wigwam is 10 feet wide
Before European contact the Cherokee Indians lived in wooden huts.
In most cases the Mi'kmaq wigwam was conical in shape. Tall poles arranged with the bases of the pole forming a circle and meeting together at the top. The poles were covered in sheets of white Birch or pliable cedar bark strips. Hides were seldom used as they were too heavy for carrying from camp to camp each season. See related link for some photos of Mi'kmaq shelters.