A descriptive catalogue of Catlin's Indian gallery : containing portraits, landscapes, costumes, &c., and representations of the manners and customs of the North American Indians. Collected and painted entirely by Mr. Catlin ... Exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London.

  • Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
Date:
[1840]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A descriptive catalogue of Catlin's Indian gallery : containing portraits, landscapes, costumes, &c., and representations of the manners and customs of the North American Indians. Collected and painted entirely by Mr. Catlin ... Exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RFC-CA-RE'ES. A small but very hostile tribe of 2,500, on the west bank of the Missouri, 1600 miles above its junction with the Mississippi,—living in one village of earth- covered lodges. 123. Stan-au-pat, the Bloody Hand. Chief of the Tribe. His face painted red with vermilion, scalping-knife in his hand ; wearing a beautiful dress. 124. Kah-beck-a, the Twin; wife of the Chief (No. 123). 125. Pshan-shaw, the Sweet-scented Grass; a girl of twelve years old, daughter of the Chief (No. 123), full length, in a beautiful dress of the mountain sheep skin, neatly garnished, and robe of the young buffalo. 126. Pah-too-cd-ra, He who Strikes; a distinguished Brave. MAN-DANS, (SEE-PO'HS-KA-NU-MATI-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 picquets, eighteen feet high, and a ditch. [This friendly and interesting tribe all perished by the smallpox 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 oj a few months ! The disease was carried amongst them by the traders, which de¬ stroyed in six months, of different tribes, 25,000 !] 127. Ha-na-tah-nu-mauhk, 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. Mdh-to-tok-pa, the Four Bears; second Chief, but the favorite and po¬ pular man of the nation; costume splendid, head-dress of war eagles5 quills and ermine, extending quite to the ground, surmountecf by the horns of the buffalo and skin of the magpie. 129. Mah-to-he-ha, the Old Bear; a very distinguished Brave ; but here repre¬ sented in the character of a Medicine Man or Doctor, with his medicine or mystery pipes in his hands, and foxes’ tails tied to his heels, prepared to make his last visit to his patient, to cure him, if possible, by hocus pocus and magic. 130. Mah-tahp-ta-ha, He who Rushes through the Middle; a Brave, son of the former Chief, called “the Four Men.” Necklace of bears’ claws. 2