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The pottery and the bone implements formed an especially welcome ad- 

 dition to our collection. One of the small pottery vessels is shown in 

 figure 9. 



The results of this work and of that done in Shawano and Oconto 

 counties will later be published by the Museum in the form of two short 

 papers illustrated by photographs taken in the field. 



COLLECTING AMONG THE BLACKFOOT 

 INDIANS 



By S. a. Barrett'' 



On July 26th, Mr. George Peter, the Museum's artist, and the writer 

 reached the Blackfoot Indian Agency at Browning, Montana. We 

 were at once most cordially received by the authorities, especially by 

 Mr. Campbell, the Superintendent in charge of this great reservation 

 which comprises about 1,000,000 acres, chiefly of rolling prairie, abut- 

 ting on the eastern foothills of the Rockies and adjoining Glacier Na- 

 tional Park. 



Mr. Campbell was at that time engaged in a survey of the full-blood 

 population of the reservation and kindly invited us to join his party on 

 a trip over to the Two- Medicine and Heart Butte country, about forty 

 miles south of the Agency. 



For our comfort ( ?), he called into service a government Ford, with 

 Mr. Stone, the reservation's supervisor of live-stock, as chauffeur. There 

 are relatively few fertile and well-watered spots in this region, each suit- 

 able for a small Indian farm. These are ordinarily widely separated 

 and our driver usually took the most direct route, up hill and down dale, 

 over an unchartered and trackless waste of rolling prairie, cut by deep 

 gulches and often by canyons, where the swif I rivers, fed by the glaciers 

 of the higher mountains course through the reservation. In fact, the 

 prairie was not the only thing that rolled and an hour over that rocky, 

 gullied prairie is guaranteed to shake out of the system any ailment to 

 which human flesh is heir. 



Arrived at Heart Butte, which derives its name from the imposing 

 butte which juts up back of this sub-agency, we soon found excellent 

 conditions for our work. Here were many old full-bloods who were 

 acquainted with primitive customs, and nearby we found an old buffalo 



•Director, Milwaukee Public Museum. 



