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The bison drive of the Blackfeet Indians
Plains Anthropologist • 23 (82) (2) • Published In 1978 • Pages: 243-248
By: Schaeffer, Claude E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents information on the Blackfoot hunting method of the bison drive, as reconstructed from interviews with elderly informants, comparative, historical, and archaeological research. Schaeffer emphasizes the importance to the drive's success of applied knowledge concerning the bison's sense of smell, and the procedures engaged in by the 'runners' who lured herds of animals to their deaths. The bibliography for this article is not available.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Blackfoot
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus ; J. Simpson ; 1983
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1800-1880
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Alberta, Canada; Montana, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Claude E. Schaeffer
- Plains Anthropologist -- Vol. 23, no. 82, pt. 2
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sc77000190
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siksika Indians