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The Paiute followed a regular seasonal pattern of food-getting within the band's traditional territory, knowing which roots and bulbs to dig in spring, where seeds and berries ripened in summer, and so on through fall, when the pinion crop came in. As they pursued plant foods, the Paiute also collected almost anything that walked, flew, or crawled - larvae and adult insects, grasshoppers, locusts, and ants. Men hunted for meat too, but in a land where plants were scarce, animals were scarce. With long sticks the men prodded rats, lizzards, and ground squirrels out of their burrows, and they set traps for rabbits. If rabbits were plentiful, the community held a rabbit hunt. A real windfall was an antelpe or two.
 * Food, Clothing, and Technology:**

Men's hunting tools were bows and arrows, spears, clubs, and throwing sticks.

The men could not catch enough animals to make much buckskin, and the people wore little hide clothing - only a loincloth for men and sometimes a skirt for women. Most of the time, women wore fiber aprons, and sandals, if worn at all, were made of fiber as well. Both sexes wore skin moccasins and woven rabbit-skin robes in winter.

Paiute women were basketmakers of great skill. Working with reeds, grasses, bark fibers, or twigs, they made almost every implement except the men's hunting equipment: cradles, mats, seed beaters, hats, and above all, baskets. Baskets served as water jars, dishes, and containers. Large carrying baskets had vertical poles sticking through the bottom to hold them upright on the ground. The women carried those