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.

The Fort Sage Drift Fence, Washoe County, Nevada. Lorann S. A. Pendleton and David Hurst Thomas. New York: American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers. Vol. 58: Part 2, 1983.

On the following pages we explore the harvesting and processing of tui chub by aboriginal people in the western Great Basin. Existing archaeological, ethnographic, and biological data identify the most common method of tui chub acquisition, processing, and consumption. The data guide 12 experiments where we document the effort required to harvest and initially process tui chub for food. We calculate the number of food calories returned per hour of fishing and processing effort. The experiments help rank tui chub relative to other food resources in the Great Basin (cf. Simms 1984). However, we make no assertions about optimal foraging behavior of Great Basin aboriginal people. Rather, we simply demonstrate that tui chub are an abundant, easily harvested resource that provides high calories and protein with relatively little effort. And the Indians of the western Great Basin took advantage of this.