Travaux – Piegan

Description

With the most of the plains tribes the travois was the universal vehicle for transporting camp equipment, but is now rarely seen. In the days before the acquisition of horses a smaller form of the same device was drawn by dogs. The occasion of this picture was the bringing of the sacred tongues to the medicine-lodge ceremony, as narrated in Volume VI, page 40.

Contemporary print. Catalog date 1900. Piegan Indians. SKU ECP0610. Fine art paper, luster photo paper, or canvas.