Cheyenne family using a horse-drawn travois, 1890.
A travois (/ˈtrævwɑː/; Canadian French, from French travail; also travoise or travoy) is an A-frame structure that was used to drag loads over land, most notably by the Plains Indians of North America.[1]
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both built the travois and managed the dogs, sometimes using toy travois to train the puppies. Buffalo meat and firewood were typical travois loads. According...
Project Travois was a 1966 U.S. Army Nuclear Cratering Group proposal to develop demonstration projects using nuclear explosives for dam construction...
shoulder or the head. For travel, cradleboards could be hung on a saddle or travois. Ethnographic tradition indicates that it was common practice to cradleboard...
with unnaturally fast drawing ability and marksmanship, is dragged on a travois by his horse to a way station and restaurant. There, he encounters a pair...
frequently and quickly. Once collapsed, the tipi poles are used to create a travois. Travois are a horse-pulled frame structure used by plains Indians to carry...
might exceed 60 pounds. Women also used dogs to pull travois to haul firewood or infants. The travois were used to carry meat harvested during the seasonal...
nonhuman power sources. The first two-wheeled carts were derived from travois and were first used in Mesopotamia and Iran in around 3,000 BCE. The oldest...
Sternberg used travois to move wounded soldiers from the battlefield to a hospital 25 miles away. In very rough field conditions, travois are sometimes...
A-shaped sled called a travois. The travois was designed for transport over dry land. The Blackfoot had relied on dogs to pull the travois; they did not acquire...
receive the opportunity to assemble and ride a horse-pulled travois. Although a travois was originally used by Native Americans for mainly transportation...
of apparent high status. Pulling Some tribes utilized dogs for pulling travois. They pulled the game, tipi, and other items for their masters. Religious...
involve carrying the victim some distance on improvised stretchers, a travois, or other improvised carrying gear. Spinal immobilization is necessary...
difficult to build than travois but are easier to propel over smooth surfaces. Pack animals, ridden horses, and bullocks dragging travois or sleds require wider...
and the caretaker catches them for trespassing. They bring Tim home on a travois since he is unable to ride. Lou runs to see Katie and tells Mallory that...
determine the maximum load the animal or machine can pull. Snowboard Luge Travois, a frame used to drag loads over land, i.e. another horse-drawn transport...
groups lived in tents, hunted bison and other game, and used dogs to pull travois loaded with their possessions. Substantial numbers of the people and a...
Funeral scaffold of a Sioux chief 0044v. Something like a travois basket is placed over the muffled up body. The Cheyennes used now and then the same...
for 50 years for a dam at Twin Springs, culminating in a 1966 Project Travois proposal, which would have used nuclear explosives to either create large...
methods for ground transport without wheels include: Maglev Sled, ski or travois Hovercraft and ekranoplans Walking pedestrian, Litter (vehicle) or a walking...
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