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INDIAN KEMAINS ON THE UPPER YELLOWSTONE. 



of au open fan. The piles of stones are about 10 feet apart aud each 

 stone Leap is 2 or 3 feet in height. When tlie Indians last used 

 this game drive, which was about fifteen years ago, tliey set up wooden 

 stakes about 4 feet long in each stone pile. From stake to stake 

 were stretched lines of stout buckskin cord, like wires on a barbed 



Fig. 3. — Ancient game drive in Park County, ISIont. 



wire fence, aud from these cords were hung at short intervals feathers, 

 strips of bright cloth, and scraps of white buckskin, fluttering in the 

 wind. Of course this fence could be easily broken through, but the 

 frightened animals always turned back from the fluttering rags, 

 feathers, and other objects hanging from the long lines of cords. 



