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of the cliff covered and preserved these bones until unearthed by the 

 under-cutting of the bank a century or more later. 



Two of the oldest men on the reservation claimed that they had 

 themselves, when very young men, participated in buffalo drives, but 

 never at this site. The middle-aged men, however, all understand thor- 

 oughly the methods employed in such a drive. This was shown by our 

 guide, who, while at the bottom of the cliff above mentioned, secured 

 some bluish clay. Arrived at the top of the cliff, he proceeded to model, 



Fig. 14. — Tj-pical Blackfoot Indian family in modern native dress. 

 Blackfoot Reservation, Alontana. 



with considerable skill, a buffalo herd and drive, using pebbles to repre- 

 sent the piles of stones. The result of his work is shown in figure 13. 



Having completed our model and verified its details, by questioning 

 the older people, we devoted ourselves to obtaining life masks in plaster, 

 oil sketches and photographs, of some typical full-bloods, also to the 

 completing of our collection. 



In collecting we were confronted by the fact that common utensils, 

 food stuffs, weapons and implements, such as might be expected in 

 abundance, were very scarce, while sacred bundles and other ceremonial 

 paraphernalia were relatively abundant and more easy to obtain than 



