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Make a wigwam - PEM BB traditional.wood.wigwam

BB traditional skills - wood badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEM curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the Wood badge in Traditional Skills.

Houses don't have to have multiple bedrooms and a bonus room over the garage.  One natural option they used hundreds of years ago was a wigwam.  Let's try to make one!

 
 

Here's one way to do it:


Minimum requirements:
  - Make a traditional wigwam
  - At least 10' by 10'
  - Bark covered
  - Bark pieces shingled correctly for shedding water
  - Appears like it will shed 98% of rain to the ground
  - This bb can only use materials that existed 200 years ago

Provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 min):
  - The materials you're starting with
  - Frame under construction
  - Finished frame
  - Several pics of covering the frame
  - Clear evidence it is being built to shed rain
  - Finished wigwam from a couple angles
  - Several views from inside on a sunny day showing no light coming through the walls/roof
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Another good resource: http://www.nativetech.org/wigwam/construction.html

Cattail mats have also been used as it says, especially during the summer. They are quite an art unto themselves and one I hope some day to learn.
 
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