Key Question 1: Plains Indians

Key Question 1: Plains Indians

Buffalo

• Skull- used in religious ceremonies
• Brain- used for tanning hides
• Horns- used for arrows,straighteners,cups,firecarries,headdresses,ornaments,ladles,spoons,toys and quilfeathers
• Fat- used for cooking,to make soap and hair grease
• Bones- used as arrowheads,dice,games counters,jewellery, saddles, knives, needles, painbrushes, frames, shovels and tools
• Bladder- food bags
• Intestines- used for buckets and cooking vessels
• Hooves- used to make glue, rattles and tools
• Dung- used for fuel and smoked by men in special ceremonies
• Tail- used for fly swats 
• Fur- used as decoration on clothes, stuffing saddles, pillows, making mittens and rope
• Tanned hide- used for bags, bedding, blankets, bullboats…