Nomadics

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May/June 1971
 
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Now, as unbelievable as this may sound, the Nomadics tribe has done all this (and remember, the material they use costs 6-8 times as much as the fabric used by any other tipi maker), while holding the cost of their finished tents down to almost exactly the same prices of those "other brands." How? Well, Thommy says, "All established profit margins would seem to discount this combination of relationship betwixt cost of materials and retail price, but what those bookkeeping dudes always assume is a certain lifestyle, one of very expensive habits, none of which we are addicted to, we hope. We buy our foods at the wonderful Portland Co-op (Food `n Friends) and get the old buggie doctored at the People's Garage. The secret is alternative lifestyle access and habits. We revere living in the forest in a tipi. It's not camping out for us, it's permanent. We think that coming at it from the inside-out allows us to make a finer tipi in this country (by non-Indians) for less exchange (we like to trade) than any of those manufactured as a sideline by a tent and awning company."

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Following this LIVE-your-life-style philosophy enables Nomadics to sell a 16-foot tipi made of 8-oz. double-fill canvas for only $85 and an 8-oz. Acrilon tipi of the same size retails for just $140. A 6-foot high liner of doublefill canvas for that tipi is $35 and the same liner in 10-oz. Permasol runs $42. The prices, respectively, for a 22-foot structure are $115, $220, $50 and $57. Dang inexpensive, anyway you consider it.

Look, it would take half this issue to tell you all the good things we know about the Nomadics tipi. Let's just say that several people here at  Mother Earth News intend to buy tipis soon, and those tipis are gonna be made by Nomadics, and let it go at that. For full, complete, warm and wonderful details on why we think the Nomadics design is currently the best in the world, contact:

Nomadics Tipi Makers
17671 Snow Creek Rd.
Bend, Oregon 97701
Tele: (541) 389-3980

Those folks are really into tipis and they can tell you all about it better than we can anyway.

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