Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology

In the Great Basin, crickets, mud hens, and occasionally mule deer and desert bighorn sheep were the subject of aboriginal communal drives into traps and enclosures during historic times. However, jackrabbits (Lepus californicus) and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana) were the most regular victims of communal drives (Janetski 1981: 166-176; Annell 1961: 43-55; Steward 1938). The following paragraphs review pertinent ethnographic and archaeologic literature that Anan Raymond, Dept. of Anthropology, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA 99163. indicates the "Indian corrals" functioned as either pronghorn or jackrabbit traps.