LEADER 04748nam 22006973u 450 001 9910455276303321 005 20210117182425.0 010 $a1-282-81949-6 010 $a9786612819490 010 $a1-897425-09-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000789438 035 $a(EBL)617516 035 $a(OCoLC)437416822 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176708 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153811 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176708 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10205450 035 $a(PQKB)10022554 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3259359 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617516 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000789438 100 $a20130418d2008|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImagining Head Smashed In$b[electronic resource] $eAboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains 210 $aEdmonton $cAthabasca University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-897425-04-X 327 $aCover Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1: THE BUFFALO JUMP; Communal Buffalo Hunting; Not Just Any Cliff; The Site; The Cliff; How Long Have Buffalo Jumped?; Blood on the Rocks: The Story of Head Smashed-In; CHAPTER 2: THE BUFFALO; Is it Bison or Buffalo?; In Numbers, Numberless; Tricks of the Trade; The Fats of Life; CHAPTER 3: A YEAR IN THE LIFE; Calves; Mothers; Fathers; The Big Picture; Science and the Historic Record; The Seasonal Round; The Season of Buffalo Jumping; CHAPTER 4: THE KILLING FIELD; Finding Bison; Drive Lanes; Points in Time; Ancient Knowledge 327 $aBack to the Drive Lanes Deadmen; In Small Things Forgotten; CHAPTER 5: ROUNDING UP; The Spirit Sings; The Nose of the Buffalo; Fire this Time; Luring the Buffalo; Buffalo Runners; Lost Calves; Billy's Stories; The End of the Drive; Of Illusions, Pickup Trucks, and Curves in the Road; CHAPTER 6: THE GREAT KILL; Leap of Faith; Overkill?; Drop of Death; Bones on Fire; Let the Butchering Begin; Bison Hide as Insulator; Back to the Assembly Line; CHAPTER 7: COOKING UP THE SPOILS; The Processing Site; Day Fades to Night; Dried Goods; Grease is the Word; High Plains Cooking; Hazel Gets Slimed 327 $aBuffalo Chips Hot Rocks; Time for a Roast; Where Are the Skulls?; Packing Up, Among the Bears; CHAPTER 8: GOING HOME; Buffalo Hides; Pemmican; Snow Falling on Cottonwoods; CHAPTER 9: THE END OF THE BUFFALO HUNT; The Skin of the Animal; The Last of the Buffalo Jumps; Rivers of Bones; Final Abandonment of Head-Smashed-In; CHAPTER 10: THE PAST BECOMES THE PRESENT; Beginnings; A Beer-soaked Bar Napkin; Cranes on the Cliff; A Rubber Cliff; And a Rubber Dig; The Blackfoot Get Involved; Meeting with the Piikani; Joe Crowshoe; A Painted Skull; Where Are the Blood?; Hollywood North 327 $aOpening and Aftermath Of Time and Tradition; EPILOGUE: JUST A SIMPLE STONE; Last Summer; A Thousand Years Ago; Three Months Later; Three Days Later; Sources to Notes; References Cited; Index; 330 $aAt the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and into wooden corrals. The rest of the group butchered the kill in the camp below. Author Jack Brink, who devoted 25 years of his career to "The Jump," has chronicled the cunning, danger, and triumph in t 606 $aAmerican bison hunting -- History 606 $aBuffalo jump -- Alberta 606 $aHead-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site (Alta.) 606 $aIndians of North America -- Hunting -- Great Plains 606 $aAmerican bison hunting$xHistory$zGreat Plains 606 $aIndians of North America$xHunting$zAlberta 606 $aBuffalo jump 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aAmerican bison hunting -- History. 615 4$aBuffalo jump -- Alberta. 615 4$aHead-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site (Alta.). 615 4$aIndians of North America -- Hunting -- Great Plains. 615 0$aAmerican bison hunting$xHistory 615 0$aIndians of North America$xHunting 615 0$aBuffalo jump 676 $a639.11643097 676 $a639/.1164308997 700 $aBrink$b Jack W$0801145 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455276303321 996 $aImagining Head Smashed In$92173687 997 $aUNINA LEADER 00704nam0-2200265 --450 001 9911033775303321 005 20251024124916.0 010 $a978-88-17-05223-8 100 $a20251024d2011----kmuy0itay5050 ba 101 0 $aita 102 $aIT 105 $aa 001yy 200 1 $a<>museo immaginato$fPhilippe Daverio 210 $aMilano$cRizzoli$d2011 215 $a351 p.$cill.$d25 cm 610 0 $aArte$aStoria 610 0 $aPittura$aStoria 700 1$aDaverio,$bPhilippe$0611891 801 0$aIT$bUNINA$gREICAT$2UNIMARC 901 $aBK 912 $a9911033775303321 952 $aDE FUSCO 1518$bRDF 1574$fDARST 959 $aDARST 996 $aMuseo immaginato$91138103 997 $aUNINA