The tepee was set up with great reverence, since to the Navajo, it symbolized the womb from which we all emerge, and the tent poles were 「the bones of our grandmother.」
人们树立这个帐篷带着十分崇敬的心情,因为对于纳瓦霍人来说,它象征着所有人们诞生的子宫,而帐篷柱子是「我们祖母的骨头」。
Some rodeo cowboys are Indians and the Pendleton Round-Up in Oregon celebrates them with a tepee village.
一些参加骑术表演的牛仔是印第安人,俄勒冈州的彭德尔顿集会给予他们圆锥帐篷村居住。
The difference between the Eskimo igloo and the Indian tepee was insulation: the igloo's walls were solid and airtight whereas those of the tepee permitted a great deal of air to enter.
爱斯基摩的冰屋与印地安人的帐棚之间最大的差别在于绝缘,冰屋的墻壁是坚硬而密闭,然而帐棚的墻壁会让许多空气鉆进来。