Pauline, rifle in hand, scouted ahead of the travois and picked the smoothest way down the rough ravine.
As a voyageur of the North he had often seen wounded men carried by the Indians in travois across the plains.
He even illustrated the comfort by lying down in the travois himself and giving a dramatic representation of sleep.
Father has gone back to the house to fix up a travois to carry you.
The sun had sunk behind the cañon wall when Pierre Roubideau arrived with a travois which he had hastily built.
The American Indian used the travois on dogs the same as they did upon horses and the sudden appearance of game often produced a stampede of dog travoises, scattering the duffel, including papooses, loaded on the travois.
A new travoismust be provided for moving the medicine woman outfit.
This travois is made by the past medicine woman, her attendant in the ceremonies.
Sometimes tongues are dried in front of the tipi on a stage made by setting up two travois with a lodge pole tied between them.
One end is placed on a travois (in recent times on a wagon), while the riders assist with their ropes, their horses massed around the travois horse.
The travois is made, painted red, and reserved for the special use of the medicine woman.
At noon, when they stop for lunch, the two are again seated on a robe, the travois unhooked and laid down before them.
The next day the chief gave orders to hitch the dogs to the travois and move camp.
There are dolls of all sizes, and a play travois leans against the white wall of the miniature lodge.
Winona is carried in a travois handsomely decorated, and is received with equal ceremony.
Nowadays, though, the Assinaboines have got quite a good many horses, and I expect to live long enough to see the time when dog travois will be a regular curiosity.
The dog travois has seen its best days, and before long dogs won't be used any more for that work.
There were tracks of a great band of horses, and many scratches left by travois poles; and in the trail there were a number of fresher horse tracks, which showed where Hugh and Joe and the pack animals had passed along after the camp.
If it was a few years back, I should think that a bunch of Indians had gone through; but then there are no travois trails, and I don't know what it is.
There was a confused struggle, and, to his dismay, he saw the old travois horse run against by some of the other horses, and knocked down into the deep water, and the girl and travois horse both disappeared.
In other places only the conical frame work of poles was seen, and in others the women were just pulling away the lodge skins, or in some cases were standing on a travois which leaned against the lodge, and were unpinning its front.
Fox Eye was put on a travois and the village started on again and camped that night on Milk River.
As we rode on we kept looking for the trail of dust raised by thousands of dragging, sharp-pointed lodge poles and travois and horses' hoofs, that would mark the advance of the Pikuni.
Your horses are of little account; even the best of them are only travois horses for our women!
With the travois and women in the middle, and the braves on the outside," added Louis.
Travois were loaded with household goods, or carried women too old and children too young to walk or ride horseback.
As they were going along they came to the Sand Hills; and while they were passing through them, they saw in the sand a fresh travois trail, where people had been travelling.
The loaded dogs rushed after the buffalo, dragging the travois after them and scattering their loads over the prairie.
It happened that this man and his wife both had good horses, but the others, all old women, rode slow old travois horses, and the enemy soon overtook and killed them.
They had paid their respects to the women while Silent explained about the travois and now they cast many longing glances at the blankets and cloths spread out on the grass and at the baskets which Bill was busy over.
He said that he'd go in a travois himself first before he'd let the setter be made a fool of.
The travois dragged and bumped over the uneven plain and soon came near enough for its burden to be made out.
So we built the travoisand strapped Lightning to it.
You're such a darn fool crowd that I can't get mad this time, but don't ever drag a man in a travois again.
One day when we were moving, the dog who was carrying a baby in the travois saw a deer and ran after it.
Then the women took the travois and went after wood.
They took their travois and saddles from the horses, and rested; then had their lunch.
The hunters had returned with braces of pheasant and geese, with deer slung from poles, with buffalo and elk carcasses mounted on travois dragging behind their horses.
You will have to tie me to a travois and pull me along, as we do with old people.
It was not unusual to see a great copper kettle lashed to the poles of a travois drawn by a dog, and in the kettle piled indiscriminately moccasins, babies, puppies, and other loose personal property.
The scratches on the ground of his little travois poles will make a trail easy to be followed.
Now our worldly goods were increasing, so I cut down two lodge poles and made a little travois for the dog.
In years gone by he took a travois with him on a visit to the Windy River area, and it was thereupon copied and subsequently used regularly by the Schweder family.
In all the Canadian North, as far as I am aware, the Windy River post is virtually the only place where summer transportation is accomplished by dog-drawn travois (fig.
The travois was introduced into this region by the late Charles Planchek?
Their Eskimo friends of the upper Kazan will occasionally borrow one, but I am not aware that they have made any travois of their own.
She tied the tepee poles into two great bundles, one on either side of the donkey's back; across them she put the travois net and threw into it the pots and kettles and laid the skin tent across the donkey's back.
They chose out a handsome pony, made a new travois and placed the stone in the carrying net.
Whenever the camp moved the stone and travois were taken along.
Pony and travois were both beautifully painted and decorated with streamers and colors.
Behind him, his pursuers stretched out in a thin line, first the speedy, unburdened dogs and then the travois dogs headed by the old Eskimo with his precious freight.
Then, one fine morning in early August, a long procession of Indians appeared on the hills, singing their marching songs, trailing their travois and tepee poles.
I turned back and rode to thetravois trail, followed it about three miles, and decided that there might be two or three families in the outfit.
He said he was tired out, and could not keep up, and his people had left him, not having time to stop and make a travois to take him along.
Cornett adjusted his glasses and looked for some time to the southwest, and observing no sign of them we all proceeded along the travois trail.
The fifth day, as I was going from the second to the first camp, I came to and crossed a travois trail going in a southwest course.
We had gone about one mile and a half when we struck the travois trail again, heading southwest.
Away they went with theirtravois outfit about 200 yards, and camped.
On this travois is carried the camp equipage, and sometimes a sick or wounded person.
Not a lodge-pole had been dragged travois-fashion to here, but from here a travoistrail started northeast toward Fort Sill.
That when you saw a travois trail they were moving and had their women, children, and dogs along.
After which I said, "Gentlemen, there is a fresh travois trail; the Indians are going southwest, and they passed about two miles from here.
We followed the travois trail to Thompson's Cañon.
To the Blackfoot this is known as “travois gambling,” and is played by women.
The travois marks indicate the direction of movement.
By the travois signs leading to a we know that two parties of Blackfoot combined and camped two nights, thence moved to a second camp, b.
The stick dice (travois game) when rigidly compared as to form and marking, bear close parallels among the Gros Ventre.
To indicate that they were joined by a second party, thetravois signs are used to denote two paths converging on a camp site.
Toby, carrying a staff with which to try the ice ahead, and with the seal in tow, took the lead, while Charley, with the travois followed.
The travoiscontinued to prove no appreciable burden to Charley, as Toby had feared it would.
Next morning they caught their dogs and harnessed them to the travois and took their loads on their backs and set out.
Often the dogs and the travois were swept away and the people lost many of their things.
The dog travois is well shown, both the manner in which a dog appeared when the frame was attached, and the several pairs of poles with the small net-covered frames, standing together to the left of the principal tipi.
The travois as used at that time was similar to the example shown in plate 14, although the latter was in use by the Cheyenne a generation later.
I could not bear to look at them, and was glad when Lone Walker told a number of us to round up the pack and travois horses scattered out upon the plain, and drive them back to the river, where we would go into camp and bury the dead.
A small lodge, lining and all, was borrowed for our use, and we started out in fine shape, taking five pack and travois horses to carry our outfit, and each riding a good horse.
Each family had its place in it, the women and children riding pack and travois horses, the men and youths driving the loose ones.
Ahead, women and children were coming back as fast as they could make their horses run, and pack horses, travois horses, and those dragging lodge poles were running in all directions and scattering their loads upon the plain.
As soon as we got out of the narrow confine of the coulee we drove the herd at one side of the beaten travois and pack trail, keeping about even with Lone Walker's outfit of women and children riders, and their loaded horses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "travois" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
