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During the winter of 1851-52, while Kurz was at Fort Union, a German 
artist of some ability was with the Oto and Omaha near the banks of the 
Missouri. H. Baldwin Méllhausen, late in the autumn of 1851, became lost on 
the frozen, snow-covered prairies south of the Platte, and was rescued by a 
family of Oto encamped on the bank of a small stream. He remained with 
the Oto and later returned with them to their village near the mouth of the 
Platte. From the Oto village he went up the Missouri to the Omaha, with whom 
he stayed some weeks. While with the two tribes he made many sketches of 
the Indians and scenes depicting the ways of life of the people. When he re- 
turned to his home in Berlin he carried with him the collection of drawings, 
and these, if found at the present time, would probably prove of much interest. 
PLATE 24 
Both @ and 6b are reproductions of photographs made in the vicinity of Fort 
Laramie in 1868; during the visit of the Indian Peace Commission. The com- 
mission was composed of a number of Army officers who went among many of 
the Plains tribes for the purpose of gaining their friendship for the Govern- 
ment. From original prints in the possession of Mrs. N. H. Beauregard, St. 
Louis. The name of the photographer is not known. » 
c. From the engraving of the original picture by Bodmer, as used by Maxi- 
milian. (See note, pl. 15.) 
PLATE 25 
a. Reproduced from a photograph of the original painting by Kane, now in 
the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto. Roeky Mountain Fort in 
the distance on the right. No. 57 in the catalogue. Size of picture, 18 inches 
high, 29 inches long. (See note, pl. 5, a.) - 
b. From a photograph of a water-color sketch by Kurz. (See note, pl. 23, b.) 
PLATE 26 
a. From an original negative now in the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
made by Jackson in 1871. It was probably made at the Omaha village shown 
in plate 27. 
b. A page of Kurz’s sketchbook. (See note, pl. 23, b.) 
LENT PALE 
Omaha village, from an original negative made by Jackson in 1871 and now 
in the Bureau of American Ethnology. According to La Flesche, “The loca- 
tion of the Omaha village can best be described as in the southwest quarter 
of Section 30, Township 25, Range 10, in the extreme eastern border of 
Thurston County, Nebraska. The land was allotted in 18883 to Pe-de-ga-hi, 
one of the Omaha chiefs. It is about three-quarters of a mile west of the 
historic site known as Blackbird Hill, on which the great medicine man Black- 
bird was buried.” 
PLATE 28 
Both a and b represent pages in Kurz’s sketchbook. (See note, DieZzos:) 
PLATE 29 
Reproduced from the engraving of Bodmer’s painting, as illustrated by 
Maximilian. (See note, pl. 15.) 
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