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tent ring
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a ring of stones used to hold down a tent, such as a teepee or tupek, often remaining in position after the tent has been removed.
Quotations
1945
When a tent is struck and the owner moves on, the ring of stones which held it down lies there for years to come, and these tent rings are found today scattered even more widely and plentifully than are the old igloos.
1955
Men and women who had been prominent in their communities, they [Blackfoot] laid out on hill-tops inside their tents, after weighing down the edges of the skin with stones. Many of the "tent rings" still visible on the prairies are, therefore, burial-rings, not the sites of ancient camps.
1958
My large tent needed more rocks to hold it down firmly that the usual tent ring supplied.
1967
In the valleys of the Dubawnt . . . and Back Rivers . . . only their stone tent rings remain, mute witnesses to the fact that people once lived there.