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[Native Hunting Techniques]. “Tactique des Chausseurs.”
MJA IX C9-097
4 3⁄4” x 7 3⁄8”
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[Details of a hunt. Based on the hunt of the winter of 1842]. “Details d’une chasse. Les circonstances sont
prises de la chasse d’hyver de 1842”
MJA IX C9-098
4 1⁄2” x 7”
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[Best hunting shots]. “Beaux coups de Chasse.”
“MJA IX C9-099
4 1⁄2” x 6 1⁄4”
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[Death of the Buffalo. “Old buffalo killed in sight of camp. It fell and got up three times, it took more than 20
shots to kill”]. “Vieux buffle tué à la vue du camp… il tomba et se releva trois fois, il fallut plus de 20 balles pour le tuer.”
MJA IX C9-028a
3 1⁄2” x 5 1⁄2”
Description
Artist: Nicolas Point, S.J. (1799-1868)
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Lender: Midwest Jesuit Archives
Everything in frontier life revolved around hunting buffalo. Tribes organized winter and summer hunting trips to the nearby plains where buffalo grazed in order to feed their tribe. “Native Hunting Techniques” show different methods of hunting, from driving buffalo off a cliff to shepherding them into a field. But buffalo hunting was not safe, and Point depicts how close hunters needed to be to take down their prey. Often a buffalo was too strong for one hunter, as “Death of a Buffalo” depicts a single buffalo enduring several bullets and arrows before it was finally brought down.
Written and narrated by Liam Brew.
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