. Bulletin. Ethnology. 74 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY IBuU. 159 lashes. After cutting she oiled the ropes with back fat. One buffalo- hide thus made two ropes of equal length, 17 or more feet long. Other ropemakers employed somewhat different methods. Some cut the entire buffalo hide in a strip 2 fingers wide. They could cut one very long rope or two shorter ones this width from a hide. Some did not use a buffalo skull for dehairing, but removed all the hair with a rock. Some insisted on using coyote or badger fat to oil their ropes. Others dragged the ropes on the ground behind a horse for a
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 74 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY IBuU. 159 lashes. After cutting she oiled the ropes with back fat. One buffalo- hide thus made two ropes of equal length, 17 or more feet long. Other ropemakers employed somewhat different methods. Some cut the entire buffalo hide in a strip 2 fingers wide. They could cut one very long rope or two shorter ones this width from a hide. Some did not use a buffalo skull for dehairing, but removed all the hair with a rock. Some insisted on using coyote or badger fat to oil their ropes. Others dragged the ropes on the ground behind a horse for a time to make them soft and slick.*^ LEAO END. Figure 10.—A simple rawhide hackamore, Blackfoot. HACKAMORES The Blackfoot used a simple hackamore for halter breaking horses, breaking them to ride, and leading horses when moving camp. The hackamore was generally of a single rawhide strand 2 fingers wide. A common Blackfoot hackamore is shown in figure 10. ** Descriptions of ropemaking by the Gros Ventres, Hidatsa, and Kutenai mention minor differences in process (Kroeber, 1907, p. 150; Wilson, 1924, pp. 186-187; Turney-mgh, 1941, pp. 75-76). We cannot be sure if these were tribal or merely individual differences in method. Kiowa informants stated that w omen did most of their Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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