Hunting the Bison

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1972-26-712

Remarks

Indians, hidden under wolf skins, crawl near enough to shoot them with bows and arrows.

Early pictures of Bison. From Hennipin's travels, 1683

Hunting buffalo on snow shoes. Above drawings by George Carlin, about 1837.

Driving buffalo into a pound. Note lines of boughs, sticks and piles of stones leading to entrance of enclosure.

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