1921] BARRETT, COLLECTING AMONG THE BLACKFOOT INDIANS. 



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drive or "piskun" as it is called in Blackfoot, with its adjacent camp 

 site." 



By August first, we were hard at work, with the aid of an able 

 guide and interpreter. Our first task was to secure the model for the 

 Museum group showing the bufifalo drive, and, while Mr. Peter set about 



,. In. — Krtist skLti^hiu-; hai. k<t uuiul li,i 

 Indian group model. Badger Creek, Blacktoot Reser- 

 vation, Montana. 



sketching the background for this (figure 10), the writer, accumulated 

 information and secured specimens for the Museum's collections. 



The si e to be reproduced in our group is the old bufifalo drive on the 

 north bank of Badger Creek about five miles north of Heart Butte. 



••Informants state that the Indians had certain spots where the fixed win- 

 ter camps were established in the fall of the year. At this season the buffalo 

 were fat and prime and the drives to secure a winter's food supply were 

 usually held immediately after this fixed camp was established. 



