Copy 1, Volume 1

Catlin's notes of eight years' travels and residence in Europe, with his North American Indian Collection. With anecdotes and incidents of the travels and adventures of three different parties of American Indians whom he introduced to the courts of England, France and Belgium / [George Catlin].

  • Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
Date:
1848
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catlin's notes of eight years' travels and residence in Europe, with his North American Indian Collection. With anecdotes and incidents of the travels and adventures of three different parties of American Indians whom he introduced to the courts of England, France and Belgium / [George Catlin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MIS-SOU-RIES. Once a very numerous and powerful nation, occupying the States of Illinois and Indiana. _ Reduced in wars with Sacs and Foxes, and lastly by the small-pox in 1823; now merged into the Pawnee tribe. Numbers at present, 400; twenty years agu, 18,000. 122. Héw-che-ke-stig-ga, We who kills the Osages ; Chief of the tribe; an old man, necklace of grisly bears’ claws, and a handsome carved pipe in his hand. RIC-CA-REES. A small but very hostile tribe of 2500, on the west bank of the Missouri, 1600 miles above its junction with the Mississippi; living in one village of earth-covered lodges. 123. Stdn-au-pat, the Blootly Hand; Chief of the tribe. His face painted red with vermilion, scalping-knife in his hand ; wearing a beautiful dress. 124. Kah-béch-a, the Twin; wife of the Chief (No. 128). 125. Pshdén-shaw, the Sweet-scented Grass; a girl of twelve years old, daughter of the Chief (No. 123), full length, in a beau- tiful dress of the mountain-sheep skin, neatly garnished, and robe of the young buffalo. 26. Péh-too-cd-ra, He who Strikes; a distinguished brave. / MAN-DANS, (SEE-PO/HS-KA-NU-MA/H-KA'-KEE,) PEOPLE OF THE PHEASANTS. A small tribe of 2000 souls, living in two permanent villages on the Missouri, 1800 miles above its junction with the Mississippi. Earth-covered lodges; villages fortified by strong piquets, eighteen feet high, and a ditch. [ This friendly and interesting tribe all perished by the small-pox and suicide in 1837 (three years after I lived amongst them), excepting about forty, who have since been destroyed by their enemy, rendering the tribe entirely extinct, and their language lost, in the short space of a few months! ‘The disease was carried amongst them by the traders, which destroyed in six months, of different tribes, 25,000 ! ] 127. Ha-na-td-nu-mauk, the Wolf Chief; head of the tribe, in a splendid dress, head-dress of raven-quills, and two calumets or pipes of peace in his hand. 128, Méh-to-téh-pa, the Four Bears ; second Chief, but the favourite and popular man of the nation; costume splendid, head-dress of war-eagles’ quills and ermine, extending quite to the ground, surmounted by the horns of the buffalo and skin of the magpie.