Buffalo pound
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The buffalo pound was a hunting device constructed by native peoples of the North American plains for the purpose of entrapping and slaughtering American Bison, also known as buffalo. It consisted of a circular corral at the terminus of a flared chute through which buffalo were herded and thereby trapped. David Mandelbaum's "The Plains Cree" contains diagrams and a complete description of the construction and use of such a pound.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Mandelbaum, David G. (1940). The Plains Cree: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative Study. New York: Aims Pr Inc.. ISBN 978-0404156268.
[edit] See also
Buffalo Pound Provincial Park, a park in south-eastern Saskatchewan, which takes its name from the above term.
