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summer, a soup known to the Blackfeet as blood-soup, was 

 boiled in the suspended paunch of a beef by dropping heated 

 stones into the mixture. The stones were heated in a fire of 

 twigs and cow chips. They were carried to the paunch by two 

 sticks, one forked and the other straight ; the latter being used 

 to stir the soup as it boiled. In former times the boiling was done 

 in the hide of a buffalo, supported in the manner just described 



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DEMONSTRATION OF COOKING IN A PAUNCH Br" MEANS 0,= H 3T STONES. BLACKFEET INDIAN 

 RESERVATION, MONTANA, 1906 



or tucked into a hole in the ground. A great deal of information 

 on other phases of native life was obtained, which will enrich the 

 Museum's exhibit of the Plains Indians. 



On the top of a large hill the secret fasting-place of a medicine 

 man was discovered. An oval structure of stones had been 

 erected with an opening to the east. The enclosure was lined 

 with an evergreen resembling wild juniper and was barely large 



