mark wilson wrote:
>> Info on the diet of the Comanche Indians.  I thought
>> this was particularly instresting,
>>
>> "They also drank the milk from the slashed udders of
>> buffalo, deer, and elk. Among their delicacies was the
>> curdled milk from the stomachs of suckling buffalo
>> calves, and they also enjoyed buffalo tripe, or
>> stomachs."
>>   
>

There is an excellent commentary of the use the !Kung San people made of 
an antelope in a book by Elizabeth Thomas named 'The Harmless People' 
(she also wrote another that is good reading, 'The Old Way').  The 
Kalahari is a more marginal environment than the Great Plains, 
especially in the dry season.  Don't have the book in front of me, but 
one thing I recall they did was use the stomach as a reservoir that they 
placed in the ground, and all the liquids from the rumen, stomach, etc 
from the butchering process were caught in it and consumed.  They also 
ate the contents of the rumen.  Yum Yum!  Man is truly an opportunistic 
feeder.  I highly recommend both those books for anyone interested in a 
look at the life-ways of a hunter-gatherer people before too much 
western contact.