tND] \\s OF THE PLAINS. 



MAPS AND CLLUSTRATIONS. 



PAGE. 



Assiniboine Warrior Frontispiece 



Plan of the Plains Indian Hall 3 



Culture A reus in North America ]1 



The Indians of the Plains Facing 12 



Map showing the Distribution of the Buffalo about 1800 ... 13 

 The Distribution of Forests in Western United States .... 14 

 Sinewed-backed Bow and Quiver from the Blackfoot and a Com- 

 pound Bow of Mountain Sheep Horn from the Xez Perce . . 24 



Lance with Obsidian Point. Xez Perce 25 



Meat Drying Rack. Blackfoot 26 



Stone-headed Pounders 27 



Blackfoot Travois 30 



Assiniboine Dog Travois 31 



Crossing the Missouri in a Bull-Boat 33 



Setting up a Crow Tipi 37 



Hidatsa Village in 1868 39 



One-piece Moccasin Pattern 42 



Two-piece Moccasin Pattern 43 



Man's Shirt. Blackfoot 45 



Costumed Figure of a Dakota Woman 47 



Woman's Dress of Elkskin 48 



Firedrill. Northern Shoshone 51 



Scraping a Hide. Blood 55 



Hide Scrapers 57 



Fleshing Tools 59 



Parfleche Pattern 01 



A Parfleche 61 



Bag made of Rawhide 63 



A Case made of Rawhide 63 



Bag Decorated with Porcupine Quills and Beads. Dakota . . 64 



Pipe and Tobacco Bags. Dakota 66 



Strike-a-light Pouch. Arapaho 67 



Boiling with Hot Stones in a Paunch Supported by Sticks. Black- 

 foot 70 



Buffalo Horn Spoon 71 



Bone Knife 75 



A Buffalo Hide Shield from the Northern Blackfoot 78 



