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on the right, in the rear, is a tripod, with what appears to be a 
shield suspended from it. The bone implement mentioned as being 
used by the women to remove particles of flesh from the skin of 
the recently killed elk belonged to a well-known type which was 
extensively used throughout the region. It was formed of the large 
bones of the leg of the buffalo, elk, or moose. Many old examples 
are preserved in the National Museum, Washington. 
When dealing with the agents of the Government the Yankton 
would gather on the plains around Fort Pierre. Just 20 years after 
Maximilian’s visit to the upper Missouri a small party passed down 
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the river, and on October 18, 1853, entered in their journal: “ We 
reached Fort Pierre about 12 o’clock m. ... Two days before our 
arrival at this place, the main body of the Yankton Sioux, in number 
some twenty-five hundred, had left for the buffalo country. They 
have been here to receive their presents from the government. Two 
more bands are expected in a few days.” (Saxton, (1), p. 267.) And 
some days later, while continuing down the Missouri: “The prairies 
are burning in every direction, and the smoke is almost stifling.” 
TETON. 
The Teton, moving westward from their early habitat to the east 
and north of the Minnesota, were encountered on the banks of the 
Missouri by Captains Lewis and Clark when they ascended the river, 
during the early autumn of 1804. On September 26 of that year 
