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on the "Riv des Panis," unquestionably the Platte, about the mouth 

 of a large unnamed tributary entering from the north. Comparison 

 with modern maps leaves Httle room for doubt that this tributary 

 denotes the Loup, on whose banks the Panimaha (Skidi Pawnee) 

 are represented, also with 12 villages. This is the first really con- 

 vincing cartographic evidence that the Pawnee were established in 



Fig. 2. — Portion of the Delisle map (1718) showing the 

 Pawnee towns on the Loup and Platte Rivers in east-central 

 Nebraska. 



the Loup-Platte region in considerable numbers in the first quarter 

 of the eighteenth century. Taken in conjunction with the data 

 gleaned from earlier narratives, it adds strength to the view that this 

 tribe has occupied its historic nineteenth century locale since the 

 very beginning of white explorations. 



Of much concern to the archeologist using the so-called direct 

 historical approach is the question of when European manufactures 



