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  ANNUAL 
  liEPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1927 
  

  

  employees 
  : 
  Joseph 
  La 
  Flesche, 
  Sagan 
  Fontanelle, 
  and 
  Peter, 
  an 
  interpreter 
  for 
  

   the 
  Ouiahaws 
  and 
  Otoes. 
  

  

  Kurz 
  was 
  ever 
  interested 
  in 
  the 
  details 
  of 
  Indian 
  dress, 
  and 
  wrote 
  

   at 
  that 
  time: 
  

  

  The 
  Omahaws 
  wear 
  moccasins 
  made 
  of 
  elk 
  skin 
  blackened 
  with 
  smoke 
  and 
  

   usually 
  with 
  an 
  ornamental 
  seam 
  across 
  the 
  back 
  of 
  the 
  foot. 
  The 
  flaps 
  turn 
  

   outward. 
  

  

  These 
  were 
  very 
  eventful 
  days 
  for 
  the 
  artist. 
  Every 
  hour 
  presented 
  

   something: 
  new 
  or 
  exciting. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  1. 
  — 
  Omalia. 
  Managgiga. 
  May 
  23, 
  1851 
  

  

  On 
  June 
  10; 
  

  

  Just 
  as 
  I 
  was 
  beginning 
  a 
  portrait 
  of 
  an 
  Omahaw 
  youth 
  three 
  gentlemen 
  came 
  

   in, 
  two 
  of 
  whom, 
  W. 
  Picotte 
  and 
  A. 
  Culbertsou, 
  I 
  knew 
  already. 
  They 
  are 
  agents 
  

   in 
  the 
  upper 
  Missouri 
  region 
  for 
  the 
  great 
  fur 
  trading 
  company. 
  

  

  Kurz 
  told 
  of 
  his 
  desire 
  to 
  visit 
  the 
  far 
  upper 
  waters 
  of 
  the 
  

   Missouri. 
  

  

  The 
  preceding 
  day, 
  while 
  at 
  Belle 
  Vue, 
  he 
  had 
  made 
  several 
  

   sketches 
  of 
  Omaha 
  Indians. 
  One 
  was 
  " 
  a 
  portrait 
  sketch 
  of 
  Waascha- 
  

   mani, 
  a 
  very 
  old 
  former 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  Omahaws." 
  

  

  Two 
  days 
  later, 
  on 
  June 
  12, 
  Kurz 
  rode 
  with 
  Joseph 
  La 
  Flesche 
  to 
  

   the 
  Omaha 
  village 
  beyond 
  Papillon 
  Creek 
  to 
  witness 
  a 
  dance 
  around 
  

   Tecumseh 
  Fontanelle, 
  who 
  had 
  accidentally 
  shot 
  himself 
  a 
  few 
  days 
  

  

  