Another interesting thing I remember is that Lewis referred to Puddleglum's house in
The Silver Chair as resembling an Indian wagwam. I wonder if Lewis had actually seen a tepee or lodge on a trip to the United States. Or did he get the description of the dwelling from a book about Indians? The Indians who lived in the forests of my area of Michigan resided in birchbark houses instead of tepees, which were homes for the plains tribes. My dictionary says that a wigwam, which is similar to a birchbark house, is "a hut of the Indians of the Great Lakes region and eastward having typicaly an arched framework of poles overlaid with bark, rush mats, or hides." So maybe the picture below is what Puddleglum's house in the marshes of Narnia looked like!
Larry W.