File:American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole and archeological site in Crook County, Wyoming LCCN2015634148.tif
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[edit]DescriptionAmerican bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole and archeological site in Crook County, Wyoming LCCN2015634148.tif |
English: Title: American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole and archeological site in Crook County, Wyoming
Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Native American hunters stampeded bison in the direction of the pit, which was deep enough to kill or disable the animals that were driven into it. The Vore site was used as a kill and butchering site from about 1500 AD to about 1800 AD. Archeological investigations in the 1970s uncovered bones and projectile points to a depth of 15 feet. About ten tons of bones were removed from the site, whose pit is estimated to contain the remains of 20,000 buffalo. The site is named for the family of Woodrow and Doris Vore, who donated the site to a foundation that interprets the site for visitors.; Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069). |
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Date | Taken on 20 August 2015, 16:40 (according to Exif data) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Camera location | 44° 32′ 09.23″ N, 104° 09′ 24.16″ W ![]() ![]() | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | ![]() |
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Image title | American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole and archeological site in Crook County, Wyoming. Native American hunters stampeded bison in the direction of the pit, which was deep enough to kill or disable the animals that were driven into it. The Vore site was used as a kill and butchering site from about 1500 AD to about 1800 AD. Archeological investigations in the 1970s uncovered bones and projectile points to a depth of 15 feet. About ten tons of bones were removed from the site, whose pit is estimated to contain the remains of 20,000 buffalo. The site is named for the family of Woodrow and Doris Vore, who donated the site to a foundation that interprets the site for visitors. |
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Camera manufacturer | Canon |
Camera model | Canon EOS 5DS R |
Author | Carol M. Highsmith |
Copyright holder | Carol M Highsmith |
Exposure time | 1/500 sec (0.002) |
F-number | f/4 |
ISO speed rating | 1,250 |
Date and time of data generation | 16:40, 20 August 2015 |
Lens focal length | 45 mm |
Latitude | 44° 32′ 9.23″ N |
Longitude | 104° 9′ 24.16″ W |
Altitude | 1,157.4 meters above sea level |
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 22:11, 22 August 2015 |
Exposure Program | Manual |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 16:40, 20 August 2015 |
APEX shutter speed | 8.965784 |
APEX aperture | 4 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 4 APEX (f/4) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Flash | Flash did not fire |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 82 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
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Focal plane Y resolution | 2,413.3333435059 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Scene capture type | Standard |
GPS time (atomic clock) | 21:40 |
Satellites used for measurement | 8 |
Receiver status | Measurement in progress |
Measurement mode | 3-dimensional measurement |
Measurement precision | Poor (2.1) |
Reference for direction of image | Magnetic direction |
Direction of image | 351 |
Geodetic survey data used | WGS-84 |
GPS date | 20 August 2015 |
GPS tag version | 2.3.0.0 |
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- Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive
- Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
- Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith
- Taken with Canon EOS 5DS R