CREEKS. 



9. 



SEM-I-WOC-CA. 



(Painted Sept. 1843.) 



Represented as about crossing a small stream, with a corn-basket 

 under her arm. She is attired in the costume peculiar to the Creek 

 and Seminole women. Their dress consists of calico, of a coarse, 

 cheap kind, worked to the depth of from twelve to fifteen inches from 

 the bottom with different colours, in various devices. 



I found it exceedingly difficult to get the women of this tribe to 

 sit for their pictures, owing to the opposition of their chiefs, who do 

 not consider them worthy of such an honour. 



CREEKS. 



These people formerly resided in Georgia and Alabama, but were 

 removed by the United States Government in 1836, and are now re- 

 siding on the Arkansas, seven hundred miles west of the Mississippi. 

 They are somewhat advanced in civilization and the arts. They 

 mostly follow agricultural pursuits, having extensive farms and 

 many negroes. The principal productions of the soil are corn and 

 sweet potatoes; they raise some cotton, from which they manufacture 

 a very substantial cloth, suitable to their own wants. Vegetables 

 of almost every description are produced in abundance. They raise 

 large stocks of horses, hogs, and cattle, to which their country is well 

 adapted, being mostly prairie, and one of the finest grazing countries 

 in the world. 



They adhere tenaciously to all their ancient customs, with a super- 

 stitious awe and veneration, having among them their rain-makers, 

 medicine or mystery men, in the potency of whose charms they are 

 firm believers. 



