Ingenious in design, these amazing structures are built using found materials, are portable so that a nomadic hunting lifestyle could be accommodated, and symbolize the relationship between the designers and the land. The tipi was created using straight lean wooden poles as structure (round at the base and collected together at the top), buffalo hides/cloth as walls with warm buffalo hides and scented tree boughs as flooring. This design is difficult to pin point an actual original source, with various bands using this style of architecture, but there is not doubt that its design was unique to first nations across the Canadian plains and into the great lake regions.