. Bulletin. Ethnology. Ewers] THE HORSE IN BLACKFOOT INDIAN CULTURE 39 ing. A more lively animal was close-hobbled so that it had to jump to move around. The hobble generally was simply constructed of a length of soft-tanned buffalo skin or rawhide. Weasel Tail demon- strated a clever hobble that would neither tighten nor slip (fig. 2). As. Figure 2.—A simple rawhide hobble, Blackfoot. a rule hobbles were fastened loose enough to prevent chafing of the horse's legs but tight enough to prevent their slipping over the feet. In lieu of a second hobble, hunting parties sometimes tied a second hors
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Ewers] THE HORSE IN BLACKFOOT INDIAN CULTURE 39 ing. A more lively animal was close-hobbled so that it had to jump to move around. The hobble generally was simply constructed of a length of soft-tanned buffalo skin or rawhide. Weasel Tail demon- strated a clever hobble that would neither tighten nor slip (fig. 2). As. Figure 2.—A simple rawhide hobble, Blackfoot. a rule hobbles were fastened loose enough to prevent chafing of the horse's legs but tight enough to prevent their slipping over the feet. In lieu of a second hobble, hunting parties sometimes tied a second horse to the leg of a hobbled animal.^- PICKETING Wissler (1910, p. 97) wrote of the Blackfoot, "At night the best liorses were brought into camp and picketed near the tipis of their ; This was a precautionary measure to prevent the theft »2 In 1754, Hendry (1907, p. 338) noted that the horses of the "Arohithinue" of the Saskatchewan Plains were "turned out to grass, their legs being ; The Osage, on their summer hunt in 1S40, unloaded their horses each night and set them free "after their forelegs had been fastened with enferges or horse locks" (Tixier, 1940, p. 159). Flathead (Turney-High, 1937, p. 109) and Plains Cree (Mandelbaum, 1940, p. 196) use of hide hobbles have been reported. Wilson (1924, pp. 155, 189-190) gives a detailed description and illustration of Hidatsa rawhide hobbles. W. B. Parker (1856, p. 125) noted that the Delaware Indian guides and interpreters, attached to Capt. Marcy's expedition to western Texas in 1854, hobbled their horses at night "by fastening a short loop of rawhide around both forelegs, below the knees, so that the horse could only move by a succession of ; He also stated that some years earlier the Army tried the experiment of "hobbling dragoon horses—when on the Plains—with iron hobbles, but had to abandon it, as the Indians Invariably killed the horse when they
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