"BUFFALO HUNT" Carl Wimar, 1860
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 77 PLATE 4
"BUFFALO HUNTING ON THE FROZEN SNOW"
Peter Rindisbacher, about 1825
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 77 PLATE 5
a. "A Buffalo Pound." Paul Kane, 1845
b. Scene in a Sioux village, about 1870. Photograph by S. J. Morrow
"The animals inhabiting the Dakota country, and hunted more or less by them for clothing, food, or for the purposes of barter, are buffalo, elk, black- and white-tailed deer, big-horn, antelope, wolves of several kinds, red and gray foxes, a few beaver and otter, grizzly bear, badger, skunk, porcupine, rabbits, muskrats, and a few panthers in the mountainous parts. Of all those just mentioned the buffalo is most numerous and most necessary to their support. Every part of this animal is eaten by the Indian except the horns, hoofs, and hair, even the skin being made to sustain life in times of great scarcity. The skin is used to make their lodges and clothes, the sinews for bowstrings, the horns to contain powder, and the bones are wrought into various domestic implements, or pounded up and boiled to extract the fatty matter. In the proper season, from the beginning of October until the 1st of March, the skins are dressed with the hair remaining on them, and are either worn by themselves or exchanged with the traders." (Hayden, (1), p. 371.)