The Bison

Task: Decorate the different uses of parts of the bison with appropiate images.

THE BISON HUNT

Thousands of years before the guns and horses arrived in North America the Plains Indians hunted the bison on foot. They used spears and later bows and arrows for the hunt. They had many ways to capture the bison.

The bison was very important to the Plains Indians. They used every part of the animal

• meat - roasted on the campfire, boiled, for sausages

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• hides with the hair left on - winter clothing, gloves, blankets, robes, costumes for ceremonies or for hunting.







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• hides - ropes, blankets, shields, clothing, bags, tipi covers, bull boats, s, drums

• sinew (muscles) - bowstrings, thread for sewing, webbing for snowshoes







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• bones - for making, shovels, tools, knives, pipes, scrapers, arrowheads

• horns - spoons, cups, bowls, containers to carry tobacco, medicine or gunpowder, headdresses, arrow points, toys
  
  
  

• hair - rope, pillow stuffing, shields,







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• beard - decoration on clothes and weapons

tail - fly swatter, whip, tipi decoration

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• hoofs - rattles, boiled to make glue

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• fat - paint base, hair grease, for making candles and soap

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• dung - fuel for campfires and smoke signals







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• teeth - for decorating, necklaces

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• stomach - containers for water and for cooking







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• bladder - medicine bag, water container,

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• skull - ceremonies and prayer