196 Training Wild and Subduing Vicious Horses 



Hackamore bridle. — To make an Indian Hackamore, 

 take a soft, three-eighths inch rope about twenty 

 feet long, tie a running loop in one end, put it around 

 the horse's neck just back of the ears, pull the loop 

 open, and with the part with which the loop is made 



take a half-hitch 

 about his nose. Now 

 with the free end 

 make a second half- 

 hitch about the nose. 

 Grasp the middle of 

 the second hitch 

 where it passes over 

 the nose and run it 

 through the first 

 hitch twice, pulling it 

 out far enough to 

 pass over the head. 

 This completes the- 

 Hackamore bridle as 

 made by some, while 

 others pass the latter 

 rope twice around 

 the rope already at the top of the head and bring it 

 out around the forehead, making a brow band. This 

 makes a substantial hitch, and is much used by the 

 Indians, Mexicans and plainsmen (Fig. 51). 



Cavesson halter. — This consists of a common 

 leather halter with a heavy, leather-covered noseband 



Fig. 51. — Hackamore bridle. 



