EXPLANATION OF FIGURE 56 



The first, portrait is taken from one given in Lossiug's American Revolution and 

 War of 1812. in (187.",), page 189, and thus described: '■The portraitof the Prophet 

 ia from a pencil sketch made by Pierre Le Dru, a young French trader, at Vincennes, 

 hi 1808. He made a sketch of Tecumtha at about the same time, both of which 

 I found in possession of his son at Quebec in 1848, and by whom 1 was kindh per- 

 mitted to copy them." The other is a. copy of tlie picture painted by Catlin in 1831, 

 aftei the tribe had removed to Kansas. The artist describes aim as blind in his 

 left | '. , eye, and painted him holding his medicine fire in his right hand and his 

 sacred stiiim of beans in the other. 



