EXPLANATION OF FIGURE 58 



This portrait is a copy of the one given by Lossing in his American Revolution 

 and the War of 1*12. in (1875), page 283. lie quotes a description of Tecumtha's 

 personal appearance by a British officer who saw him in 1812, and then goes on to 

 give the history of the portrait. "Captain .1. B. Olegg, Brock's aid-de-camp, has 

 left on record the following description of Tecumtha at that interview: 'Tecumseh's 

 appearance was very prepossessing; his figure light and finely proportioned; his 

 age I imagined to be about live and thirty [he was about forty]; in height, 5 feet 

 9 or Id inches; his complexion light copper; countenance oval, with bright hazel 

 cms, bearing cheerfulness, energy, and decision. Three small silver crosses or 

 coronets were suspended from I lie lower cartilage of his aquiline nose, and a large 

 silver medallion of George the Third, which I believe his ancestor had received 

 from Lord Dorchester when governor-general of Canada, was attached to a mixed- 

 colored wampum string and liuii"; round his neck. His dress consisted of a plain, 

 neat uniform, tanned deerskin jacket, with long trowsers of the same material, the 

 seams id' both being covered with neatly cut fringe, and lie had on his feet leather 

 i icasins, much ornamented with work made, from the dyed quills of the porcu- 

 pine.' The portrait of Tecumtha above given is from a pencil sketch hy Pierre l.c 

 Dru. . . . In this I have given only the head bj l.c Din. The cap was red, and 

 in front was a single eagle's feather, black, with a white tip. The sketch of his 

 dress (and the medal above described), in which he appears as a brigadier-general 

 of the British arin\ . is from a rough drawing, which I saw in Montreal in the sum- 

 mer of 1858, made at Maiden soon after the surrender of Detroit, where the Indians 

 celebrated that event by a grand feast. It was only on gala occasions that Tecumtha 

 was seen in full dress. The sketch did not pretend to give a true likeness id' the 

 chief, and was valuable only as a delineation id' his costume. From the two we arc 

 enabled to give a pretty faithful picture of the great Shawnoese warrior and states- 

 man as he appeared in his best mood. When in full dress he wore a cocked hat and 

 plnme, but would not give up his blue breechcloth, red leggins fringed with buck- 

 skin, and buckskin moccasins." 



