3-052-497 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Hunting sketches among the Indians of Minnesota, 1880. 'The First Find; Creeping Up; Rising to Fire; The Shot [from sketches by Mr. W. P. Hooper]. 'The Indians who still inhabit the large Native Reserves in Minnesota...are "Chippewas" or Ojibbeways...plenty of large game invites the Indians, as well as the white men, to the profitable exercise of hunting. The elk and cariboo...may be pursued at the head of the Snake River and Two Rivers, in Kittson county...and moose are occasionally met with at the head of the Rozeau river, some weighing as much as 4000 lb. Deerstalking, with venison fetching its price in the city market, seems to be an occupation that pays tolerably well, the carcase averaging 10 dols. in value. In winter it is usual to track this animal in the snow, one man following on each side of the track; but later in the season, when the deer are in herds, the mounted sportsmen ride round them, circling nearer and nearer, till close enough to shoot. Bear-hunting is also described as capital sport in Minnesota...Mr. Farrar met with Indians...who made very picturesque figures in their wild barbaric costume; their caps of otter-skin with eagle's feathers, coloured shirts and blankets, buckskin leggings and moccasins richly embroidered'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.