The Pass Creek Wickiups: Northern Shoshone Hunting Lodges in Southwestern Montana

The Pass Creek site is composed of two conical timbered lodges located in the Bitterroot Mountains of southwestern Montana. Construction techniques and geographic location indicate the lodges were built by a band of Northern "Lemhi" Shoshone Indians. This conclusion is corroborated by an i...

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Published in:Plains anthropologist 1987-02, Vol.32 (115), p.83-163
Main Authors: Davis, Carl M., Scott, Sara A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Creeks
Ethnology
Habitat, housing, architecture
Hunting lodges
Lodges
Material culture
Morphological source materials
Paleoanthropology
Ranches
Sloping terrain
Technology
Timber
Treaty lands
Valleys
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Summary:The Pass Creek site is composed of two conical timbered lodges located in the Bitterroot Mountains of southwestern Montana. Construction techniques and geographic location indicate the lodges were built by a band of Northern "Lemhi" Shoshone Indians. This conclusion is corroborated by an informant who witnessed the lodges in use at the turn of the century. The Pa$S Creek wickiups apparently reflect both the persistence of ancient aboriginal subsistence strategies and the acute conditions on Indian Reservations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
ISSN:0032-0447
2052-546X
DOI:10.1080/2052546.1987.11909376