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- Title
INDIAN TREES.
- Authors
KEMBLE, HORACE
- Abstract
The article discusses the characteristics of "Indian trees" used by Native American Indians in the Midwest U.S. as trail markers. The article describes how popular conception of the trees as fostered by media outlets such as E. L. Bruce Company and Time Magazine view the trees as either injured or a bizarre horticultural practice of Midwest Indian tribes. It then discusses how the Indians bent trees at their base using rawhide or vines in order to mark the proper direction on wilderness trails. Also discussed are areas in the southwest Pueblo and the southern tip of the Rockies Mountains that contain the trees.
- Subjects
MIDWEST (U.S.); NORTH America; NATIVE American trails; TRAILS; WAYMARKS; SIGNS &; symbols for travelers; NATIVE American antiquities; NATIVE Americans; TRAIL design &; construction; COMMUNICATION; ETHNOBOTANY
- Publication
Southwestern Lore, 1947, Vol 12, Issue 4, p78
- ISSN
0038-4844
- Publication type
Article