puhekieltä Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world.
1813, John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative, of a five years expedition, against the revolted...'', volume 1, page 403:
Their houses or wigwams, which they call carbets, are built as I have already described those of the negroes; but instead of being covered with the leaves of the manicole-tree, they are covered with the leaves of rattans or jointed canes, here called tas, (..)
1845 edition, Charles Darwin, Journal and Remarks (The Voyage of the Beagle):
The Fuegian wigwam resembles, in size and dimensions, a haycock. It merely consists of a few broken branches stuck in the ground, and very imperfectly thatched on one side with a few tufts of grass and rushes.