BUSHNELL] VILLAGES WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI ESE 
the narrative: “For the elucidation of what we have said respecting 
the form and arrangement of the skin, or travelling lodges of the In- 
dians, we subjoin an engraving, representing an encampment of Oto 
Indians, which Mr. Seymour sketched near the Platte river. In this | 
plate, the group of Indians on the left is intended to represent a 
party of Konza Indians approaching to perform the calumet dance 
in the Oto village. It may be proper to remark, that this party 
when still distant from the Otoes, had sent forward a messenger, 
with the offer of a prize to the first Oto that should meet them. This 
circumstance was productive of much bustle and activity among the 
warriors and young men, who eagerly mounted their horses, and ex- 
erted their utmost speed.” (James, (1), II, pp. 188-189.) 
Various ethnological specimens collected among the Oto a genera- 
tion or more ago are in the collections of the National Museum. 
One quite rare object, a “ pemmican maul,” formed of a single piece 
of wood, is figured in plate 34, a. 
An original sketch by Kurz in May, 1851, representing a group of 
Oto with a dugout canoe, is reproduced in plate 35, a. 
MISSOURI. 
In the narrative of the Lewis and Clark expedition appears this 
record: “June 13, 1804. We passed ...a bend of the river, Mis- 
souri and two creeks on the north, called the Round Bend creeks. 
Between these two creeks is the prairie, in which once stood the 
ancient village of the Missouris. Of this village there remains no 
vestige, nor is there any thing to recall this great and numerous 
nation, except a feeble remnant of about thirty families. They were 
driven from their original seats by the invasions of the Sauks and 
other Indians from the Mississippi, who destroyed at this village 
two hundred of them in one contest.” ( Lewis and Clark, (1), I, p. 
13.) About 5 miles beyond they reached the mouth of Grand Riven 
which flows from the northwest, serves as the boundary between Car- 
roll and Chariton Counties, Missouri, and enters the left bank of the 
Missouri River. Therefore the old village of the Missouri evidently 
stood at some point in the latter county. It was probably composed 
of a number of mat and bark covered lodges resembling the village 
of the Osage which stood a few miles farther up the river. Two days 
later, June 15, the party identified the site or remains of the former 
village of the Little Osage, and, so the narrative continues: “About 
three miles above them, in view of our camp is the situation of the 
old village of the Missouris after they fled from the Sauks.” (Op. 
cit., p. 15.) From this village the few Missouri Indians appear to 
have sought refuge among the Oto, then living on the banks of the 
Platte. 
