caught in snares. Every year they have great hunts, when scores of rabbits are killed in a single day. It is managed in this way: They make nets of the fiber of the wild flax and of some other plant, the meshes of which are about an inch across. These nets are about three and a half feet in width and hundreds of yards in length. They arrange
ANTINAINTS, PUTUSIV, AND WICHUTS, IN FESTAL DRESS.
such a net in a circle, not quite closed, supporting it by stakes and pinning the bottom firmly to the ground. From the opening of the circle they extend net wings, expanding in a broad angle several hundred yards from either side. Then the entire tribe will beat up a great district of country and drive the rabbits toward the nets, and finally into
CANYONS OF THE COLORADO.
the circular snare, which is quickly closed, when the rabbits are killed with arrows.
A great variety of desert plants furnish them food, as seeds, roots, and