. Bulletin. Ethnology. Ewers] THE HORSE IN BLACKFOOT INDIAN CULTURE 135. FiGUKE 26.—a, Placement of a willow backrest on the bottom of a travois load to enhance the appearance of the travois from the rear; b, method of transport- ing water in a paunch container. the load making it "look pretty" (fig. 26, a). " All of the items placed on a travois sometimes were wrapped in an old lodge cover and tied securely with rawhide rope 2 to 3 fingers wide, to protect them from dust, rain, or snow. If a family owned a great many buffalo robes they sometunes transported them on a makeshift
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Ewers] THE HORSE IN BLACKFOOT INDIAN CULTURE 135. FiGUKE 26.—a, Placement of a willow backrest on the bottom of a travois load to enhance the appearance of the travois from the rear; b, method of transport- ing water in a paunch container. the load making it "look pretty" (fig. 26, a). " All of the items placed on a travois sometimes were wrapped in an old lodge cover and tied securely with rawhide rope 2 to 3 fingers wide, to protect them from dust, rain, or snow. If a family owned a great many buffalo robes they sometunes transported them on a makeshift platform of two crosspieces tied to the bundles of lodgepoles trailed by a pole-dragging horse. PACKING FOOD Dry meat, tallow, and pemmican in quantity were transported in parfleches, either in pairs suspended from each side of a pack horse (fig. 20) or on the travois platform. Small quantities of meat or pem- mican to be eaten for lunch en route were carried in rectangular raw- hide bags hung from the horn of a woman's saddle. '* Chokecherries, serviceberries, gooseberries, and buUberries collected in the fall and dried for winter use were transported in buffalo calf- skin bags in the pockets of "double-bags" on pack horses. (See p. 116 " Grinnell (1923, vol. 1, p. 243), who considered willow backrests luxury items unknown to the Indians before the acquisition of horses, said the Cheyenne carried them rolled In compact bundles on horseback. A Kiowa informant said that tribe generally carried bedding on top of a pack horse's load. " The Kiowa also employed the parfleche primarily as a meat-carrying case. The Cheyenne (Grinnell, 1923, vol. 1, p. 244) used them primarily for meat, berries, and roots. James (1823, vol. 1, p. 212) wrote of the Omaha, "The meat, in its dried state Is closely condensed together in quadrangular packages, each of a suitable size, to attach con- veniently to one side of the pack saddle of a horse," suggesting that the par
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