TRAVOIS

trăvoiˈ, device used by Native North Americans of the Great Plains for transporting their tepees and household goods. It consisted of two poles, lashed one on either side of a dog or, later, a horse, with one end of each pole dragging on the ground. It had straps or wooden crosspieces between the poles near the open end that served as a carrier. Like the sledge, the travois was used by Native Americans before any use of wheels was known to them.

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books on: Travois  - 268 results

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The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material from Other Western Tribes
Book by John C. Ewers; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955
Subjects: Horses, Siksika Indians
...Breaking horses for the travois 64...The travois and transport gear 102 The horse travois 102...
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The Old North Trail: Or, Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians
Book by Walter McClintock; University of Nebraska Press, 1992
Subjects: Northwestern States--Description And Travel, Siksika Indians
...camp. -- Care of the sacred woman and the loading of her travois. -- My journey with Mad Wolf and his clan. -- An interesting...white mans advancing civilisation. Yet the old horse trail and travois tracks were still plainly visible, having been worn deep by...
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The Old North Trail, or, Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians
Book by Walter McClintock; University of Nebraska Press, 1999
Subjects: Northwestern States--Description And Travel, Siksika Indians
...been broken in many places by the fences and towns of the white mans advancing civilisation. Yet the old horse trail and travois tracks were still plainly visible, having been worn deep by many genera- tions of travelling Indians. We rode out over...
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Waheenee, an Indian Girl's Story
Book by Gilbert L. Wilson, Frederick N. Wilson, Waheenee; University of Nebraska Press, 1981
Subjects: Hidatsa Indians--Biography, Hidatsa Indians--Social Life And Customs, Waheenee--1839?-
...tribes and continued to rely on the dog travois for transporting game, fuel wood, and...were packed on the backs of women or on travois dragged by dogs. The march was led...to draw our tent poles and our loaded travois. We never used dogs to chase deer, as...
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Farmcarts to Fords: A History of the Military Ambulance, 1790-1925
Book by John S. Haller Jr.; Southern Illinois University Press, 1992
Subjects: Ambulances--History, Transport Of Sick And Wounded--History, Transportation, Military--History
...wagon fitted up as a Langer ambulance wagon The interior of an improvised hospital railcar A Dakota Indian travois A wounded soldier conveyed on a double-mule litter McElders single-mule litter The Rooker saddle attachment...
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Persistent Features from a Palaeo-Landscape: The Ancient Tracks of the Maltese Islands
Journal article by Karel J. Hughes; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 165, 1999
Subjects: Archaeology and history--Malta, Malta--Geology, Paleogeography--Research, Roads, Prehistoric--Analysis
...they were the result of a slide-car (or travois) device and disagreed with Zammits (1928...experimented successfully with a fully-loaded travois-type vehicle with wooden shafts clad with...rise to more incised lower tracks as the travois vehicle was pulled along routes that followed...
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The Western as Male Soap Opera: John Ford's 'Rio Grande.'
Journal article by Robert D. Leighninger Jr.; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 6, 1998
Subjects: Ford, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Men--Social aspects, Rio Grande (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Western films--Social aspects
...returned alive. Some break from the group as the wounded arrive on travois, horse-drawn stretchers. A brief but important shot shows a...taking Kirbys hand and walking beside him as he is carried on a travois. Many women during World War II were principal authority...
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Enduring Substances, Trying Theories: The Caribbean Region as Oikoumene
Journal article by Sidney W. Mintz; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 2, 1996
Subjects: Caribbean Area--Popular culture, Creoles--Social aspects
...instance, the Plains culture area of North America covered groups which hunted bison from horseback, used the tipi and dog travois, had a sun dance ceremony, lacked agriculture, basketry and pottery, and so on; while the Northwest Coast region was inhabited...
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The Kiowa Homeland in Oklahoma
Journal article by Steven M. Schnell; The Geographical Review, Vol. 90, 2000
...tower and the stars landmarks of protection and rebirth. The "Talking Tree Stump"3 becomes a metaphorical gateway from dog-and-travois life in the mountain wilderness to the horse-and-buffalo culture of the Plains. It is also a permanent representation on the...
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History in the Poetry of Prospero Saiz: A Reading of "Document"
Journal article by Jed Deppman; MELUS, Vol. 30, 2005
Subjects: History--Analysis, Native American authors--Criticism and interpretation, Native American authors--Works, Native American writers--Criticism and interpretation, Native American writers--Works, Saiz, Prospero--Criticism and interpretation, Saiz, Prospero--Works
...1) the primary charger (buffalo hunting and war horse), (2) the winter hunting horse, (3) the common saddle horse, (4) the travois horse, (5) the pack horse, (6) the pole-dragging horse, (7) the race horse, (8) the stud, (9) the brood mare, and (10) the...


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Calls of the Wild: Many of Our Old Wildernesses Are Dying-Like the Arctic-But Many, and Different, Others-On Liverpool's Fringes, in the South Bronx-Are Also Being Created. the Writers in the New Granta Report Back from the New Front Lines between Nature and Civilisation
Magazine article by Andrew Brown; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 137, September 1, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Granta 102 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...gun and an axe, build a log cabin and stay for a year, eating deer meat and salting the skins, which they rolled up on a travois and brought home when they simply couldnt carry any more. Park-like forests, great open spaces under magnificently...
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Dog Tails of the New World
Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 51, September 1999
Subjects: Conquerors--Social aspects, Dogs--Social aspects, Human-animal relationships--Social aspects, Native Americans--Social aspects, Spaniards--Social aspects
...dogs. When in 1540 Francisco de Coronado marched north from Mexico into Arizona, he saw Indian tribes who harnessed dogs with travois, a kind of skid-sled suitable for rough terrain. "They travel like the Arabs," he wrote, "with their tents and troops of dogs...
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Fighting Words
Magazine article by Ramesh Ponnuru; National Review, Vol. 51, September 13, 1999
Subjects: Reading--Study and teaching, Whole language approach--Study and teaching, Whole language learning--Study and teaching
...is that students learn even fewer standard English words so that they may learn Native American words such as parfleche and travois. Academic goals have been sacrificed to political ones. As Stotsky explains, "The fusion of the anti-intellectualism of the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Travois  - 6 results

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Travois
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TRAVOIS travoi , device used by Native North Americans of the Great Plains for transporting their tepees and household goods...It had straps or wooden crosspieces between the poles near the open end that served as a carrier. Like the sledge, the travois was used by Native Americans before any use of wheels was known to them. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Harness
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...animal, excluding the yoke, by which it is attached to the load that it pulls. Although harnesses are used on dogs (for drawing travois and dogsleds), on goats, and sometimes on oxen, the typical harness is for horses. There are two main kinds the collar harness...
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Transportation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Primitive peoples used a sledge made from a forked tree with crosspieces of wood. The Native Americans of the Great Plains made a travois consisting of two poles each fastened at one end to the sides of a dog or a horse, the other end dragging on the ground; the...
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Sled
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The sled is still commonly used in northern regions. See bobsledding ; luge ; skeleton ; tobogganing ; see also travois . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ascendancy in numbers and power. Horses were used for hunting buffalo and other game, for warfare, and for pulling loads on a travois . Escaped Indian horses were ancestral to the mustang , the so-called wild horse of the W United States. The two major groups...
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