TIPI LIFE

I lived in two tipis between 1974 and 1976.   The first tipi was a sixteen foot Sioux Indian design, made of canvas and hand made cedar polls.  The tipi was made by John Bacon, who lived in it with his family in the early seventies.    The tipi was built at Dan Sullivan's property in Ringoes, New Jersey.    Dan Sullivan, who unfortunately passed away recently, was a dream psychologist and a gestalt therapist.   The cedar poles were hand made from trees cut down on the property owned by Dan Sullivan.  

Dan owned a fifty acre piece of land on top of a hill, with a cedar forest, pond and open fields.   I lived at Dan Sullivan's in 1973, along with his and Pride Sullivan's 10 children.    I did not realize at the time that the cedar forest I meditated in, located on the property, was the very cedar forest from which the poles came for the tipi I later lived in for two years.   Randy Payne and I purchased the tipi from John Bacon, when he moved to a more traditional type of housing.  

The second tipi was an eighteen foot Sioux Indian design, made out of canvas and store bought cedar poles, owned by John Ho.     Both tipis were located in the Southerland Mountains of New Jersey.   Below are some photos of myself, and Randy Payne, the guy with the long hair in the next to last picture, who lived with me in the sixteen foot tipi.     Additionally there are some photos of good friends.

The plain white tipi is the 18' tipi and the painted tipi with the yin yang symbol is the 16' one.