INDIAN REMAINS ON THE UI'PEK YELLOWSTONE. 



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Iiuliaiis used theui in winter to lay around the bottom or lower edge of 

 their tepees to kee]) out the cold. Most Indian te])ees are conical in 

 sha])eand circular at the bottom, with a hole at the top where the poles 

 meet tor the esca]je of smoke from the fire built in the center of the 

 structure. In the old days, when the buffalo and other large gaim> 

 were plenty, the Indians made their tepees of smoke-tauued hides. 

 Now the buffaloes are entirely gone, and other large game is so scarce 

 on the Indian reservations that the tei)ees are overed with cloth, gen- 

 erally tliin white calico. The Indians have but few skins left and their 

 calico tepees are very cold in winter. 



Fig. 2. — Tepee riugs. Park Cimnty, iMontana. 



The most interesting of the Indian remains on our lanch is at Buf- 

 falo Blutt", where there is a remarkable game drive. Under the cliff, 

 which is about 40 feet high, the ground is white with the splintered 

 bones of large game animals that have been driven over the precipice — 

 buffaloes, elks, and deer. Above is a level i)]ain stretching back for 

 several miles into the foothills. The cliff is only about a hundred 

 yards wide at the steep i)art where the game was driven over. How 

 did they manage to make wild animals run to this narrow cliff and 

 leap over? You cau see at once how this was accomplished when you 

 climb to the plain above. There can be seen two long lines, composed 

 of ])iles of stones, stretching out on the i)lains, each line about half a 

 mile long and diverging from the edge of the cliff like the two arms 



