24 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
After all the vaunted superiority of the white race, our people today 
are holding their cattle much as the Indians held the buffalo. For in- 
stance, the Indians held the herds at the North Platte River in order 
that the tribes living north of the river might be able to get the buffalo 
all through the year, for if left to themselves, the herd would have trav- 
eled farther to the south in winter. Our round-up and general treat- 
ment of the cattle of the plains, resembles today and always has 
resembled in wildness and cruelty the buffalo hunt of the Red Man. 
In the eastern part of Wyoming, some extensive quarries, where the 
prehistoric people found quartzite and jasper, out of which to make 
chipped implements, have been known for some years. ‘These were 
visited, and specimens and photographs were secured. 
In the same general region other extensive quarries were found, 
some of which were acres in extent, and notes were taken of still other 
quarries known to the local ranchers. Nearly everywhere in Wyoming, 
but more particularly in the eastern part, circles of stones marking the 
sites of ancient tipis were found. ‘They may be counted by the hundred 
in the southern part of Converse County. ‘These stones were no doubt 
used to hold down the skin covering of the tipi. Stones are still em- 
ployed for this purpose by the Blackfoot Indians in Montana, only a 
short distance to the north. 
Pictographs painted in red and black and petroglyphs cut or pecked 
on the cliffs were noticed, particularly in the vicinity of the Wind River 
Mountains. Some of these represent horses (see the illustration on page 
22), proving them to have been made since the white man brought the 
horse to America, others represented the buffalo. 
Steatite pots in the form of an egg, and apparently of a type unknown 
in other parts of America, were noticed, especially in western Wyoming. 
True pottery was rare. Less than a dozen sites were found where 
it occurred, and these were all well towards the southern part of the 
State. "They probably mark the northern limits of pottery in this portion 
of the area. 
In the vicinity of Hammond in the Algonkin area, caves were found 
into which the wolves had dragged bones of cattle, sheep and other 
animals, and in front of which there are much village débris, many tipi 
circles and some petroglyphs. These caves probably contain many 
remains, and this vicinity, as well as the western slope of the Wind 
tiver Mountains, would probably repay detailed exploration. Several 
