Indian dwellings. See a paper by Mr. James Platt, jun., in Notes and Queries, 10 S. ix. 406. TEPEE is separately dealt with.
1705. A wigwang, which is the Indian name for a House.—Beverley, ‘Virginia,’ iii. 11.
1784. Where wretched wigwams stood, the miserable abodes of savages, we behold the foundations of cities laid, that, in all probability, will rival the glory of the greatest upon earth.—D. Boon, in Filson’s ‘Kentucke,’ p. 50.
1785. The den of a bear, or the wigwarm of an Indian.—Mass. Spy, March 17.
1821. [The Indians] called a house weekwam, pronounced by their successors wigwam.—T. Dwight, ‘Travels,’ i. 117.
1821. The weekwarm, to which they were conducted, and which belonged to the savage, who had claimed them as his property, was inhabited by twelve persons.—Id., i. 412.
1857. We asked which was the way to Jacob’s “Wickyup.”—Amasa Lyman at the Bowery, Salt Lake City, June 7: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ v. 80.
1873. I looked around on the willow walls of the brush-covered wickiup.—J. H. Beadle, ‘The Undeveloped West,’ p. 655 (Phila., &c.). (Italics in the original.)
1878. From September to December, the Indians fatten up considerably; the rest of the winter they pass in a half comatose state, crouching over a little fire in brush “wickiups,” or lying on the sunny side of a rock, sleeping as much as possible, with a meal or two per week of ground-mice or frozen snake, coming out in the spring as lean and lank as fence-rails.—J. H. Beadle, ‘Western Wilds,’ p. 173.
