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possesses au amiable disposition, and is passionately fond of joking, which has acquired for 

 him the celebrity of punster to the band. 



7. HAL-BURTA-HADJO, OR ALLIGATOR. (Painted Aug., 1843.) 



A Seminole Chief, celebrated for his prowess as a warrior. His name has been frequently 

 before the public, as the instigator and perpetrator of many atrocious murders, during the 

 Florida campaign. He has suffered much from sickness since his removal, and looks de- 

 jected and careworn. 



8. COT-SA OK TIGER. (Painted Dec., 1843.) 



A Seminole Warrior, and son of Alligator. 



9. SEM-I-WOC-CA. (Painted Sep., 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 colors, in various devices. 



The artist found it exceedingly difficult to get the women of this tribe to sit for their pic- 

 tures, owing to the opposition of their chiefs, who do not consider them worthy of such an 

 honor. 



10. OPOETH-LE-YO-HOLO. (Painted July, 1843.) 



Speaker of the Upper Creeks. This man holds the rank of principal counsellor, or 

 speaker of the councils, over which he presides with great dignity. His influence is so 

 great, that questions submitted to the council are generally decided according to his will ; 

 for his tribe consider him as the organ of their chief, and suppose he only speaks as he is 

 directed. 



11. OPOETH-LE-YO-HOLO. (1843.) 



Represented in the manner in which he paints himself when going to war. One would 

 hardly recognize this celebrated chief in this disguise. He insisted on being thus painted, 

 and it was with difficulty that he was afterwards induced to wash his face, and sit for a 

 portrait which his friends would be able to recognize. See No. 10. 



12. A CREEK BUFFALO DANCE. (Painted Aug., 1843.) 



This dance is enacted every year during the season of their busk, or green-corn dances ; 

 and the men, women, and children all take an active part in the ceremony. They invest 

 themselves with the scalp of the buffalo, with the horns and tail attached, and dance about 

 in a circle, uttering sounds in imitation of the animal they represent, with their bodies 

 in a half-bent position, supporting their weight upon their ball-sticks, which represent the 

 forelegs of the buffalo. 



13. TUSTENUGGEE EMATHLA. (Painted June, 1843.) 



This is a fine looking man, six feet and one inch in height, and well proportioned, of 

 manly and martial appearance and great physical strength, and is well calculated to com- 

 mand the respect of a band of savage warriors. He is generally known by the name of 

 Jim Boy. Tustenuggee means " warrior;" and Emathla, " next to the warrior." 



He is and always has been a firm and undeviating friend of the whites : he led a party 

 of seven hundred and seventy-six warriors to Florida, and endeavored, first as mediator, to 

 induce the Seminoles to abandon the bloody and fruitless contest in which they were en- 

 gaged, but was unsuccessful. 



14. TO-MATH-LA-MICCO, OR THE LITTLE KING. (Painted June, 1843.) 



Principal Chief of the Upper Creeks. Distinguished only as a warrior, he was elected to 

 the chieftainship through the instrumentality of Opoeth-le-yo-holo, who has great influence 

 over him. He is painted in the attitude of holding a red stick, which is invariably carried 



