That’s my problem with the modern costumes. I can’t imagine indians riding with essentially the best gear on their horses, carrying fishing baskets and buffalo hides. And all the rest. It’s a combination of a bunch of aspects of indian life all at once, all on the same horse. I’m surprised someone hasn’t figured out how to carry a tipi also. No one cured hides, went hunting, fishing, foraging and visiting all at the same time on the same horse.
Still, it would be kind of cool to ride a horse in dragging one of those bundles on long poles... whatever they are called. In traveling clothes of course :~)
You make a really good point that you would go out to do one thing at a time, not load everything on the horse for a whole week's work! It's not like the poor thing is a pickup truck and you can just keep everything in the back until needed . . .