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boat, a tub-shaped affair made by stretching buffalo 

 skins over a wooden frame: hut journeys up and down 

 the bank were made on foot. Many of the Eastern 



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Fig. .5. Crossing the Missouri in a Bull-Boat. 

 Wilson photo. 



Dakota used small canoes in gathering wild rice in the 

 small lake- of Minnesota, though the Teton-Dakota 

 have not been credited with the practice. It seems 

 probable that the ease of travel in the open plains and 

 the tact that the buffalo were often to be found inland. 



