52 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



64. Bon-son-gee, Now Fire ; chief of a band ; boar's tusk and war-whistle on his 



breast. 



(Painted 1834. Plate No. 179, page 74, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



65. Quay-ham-kay, the Stone Shell; a brave, and a good specimen of the wild un- 



tutored savage. 



(Painted 1834. Plate No. 180, page 75, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



66. Tunk-alit-6h-ye, the Thunderer (boy). 



67. ■Wun-pan-to-mee, the White Weasel (girl). 



This boy and girl, who had been for several years prisoners amongst the Osages, 

 were purchased by the Indian Commissioner ; the girl was sent home to her nation 

 by the dragoons, and the boy was killed by a ram the day before we started. They 

 were brother and sister. 



(Painted 1834. Plate No. 181, page 75, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



In plate 181, Wun-pan-to-mee (the white weazel), a girl (No. 67), and Tunk-aht- 

 oh-ye (the thunderer), a boy (No. 66), who are brother and sister, are two Kioways 

 who were purchased from the Osages, to be taken to their tribe by the dragoons. 

 The girl was taken the whole distance with us, on horseback, to the Pawnee village, 

 and there delivered to her friends, as I have before mentioned ; and the fine little boy 

 was killed at the fur trader's house on the banks of the Verdigris, near Fort Gibson, 

 the day after I painted his portrait, and only a few days before he was to have started 

 with us on the march. He was a beautiful boy of nine or ten years of age, and was 

 killed by a ram, which struck him in tbe abdomen, and knocking him against a fence, 

 killed him instantly. — 183G. Page 75, Catlin's Eight Years. 



MR. catlin's notes ON THE KIOWA INDIANS. 



The Kioways (Kiowa?) are a much finer looking race of men than either the Cao- 

 manchees (Comanche?) or Pawnees; are tall and erect, with an easy and graceful 

 gait ; with long hair, cultivated oftentimes so as to reach nearly to the ground. 

 They have generally the fiue and Roman outline of head that is so frequently found 

 at the North, and decidedly distinct from that of the Camanchees (Comanche?) and 

 Pawnee Picts. These men speak a language distinct from both of the others ; in fact, 

 the Camanchees (Comanche?) and Pawnee Picts, and Kioways and Wicos (Wecoes) 

 are all so distinctly different in their languages as to appear in that resj)ect as total 

 strangers to each other. — Ibid., page 79. 



I have several times, in former parts of this [vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years] work, 

 spoken of the great number of different Indian languages which I have visited, and 

 given my opinion as to the dissimilarity and distinctness of their character. And 

 would refer the reader for further information on this subject, as well as for vocabulary 

 of several languages, to the Appendix to vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years, Letter B. 



SHOSHONE-KIOWAS. 



The Kiowas, or prairie men, are one of the tribes that compose the Shoshone family. 

 They are a wild and roving people, occupying the country about the headwaters of 

 the Arkansas, but also formerly ranging over all of the country between the Platte 

 and the Rio Grande. They had the reputation of being the most rapacious, cruel, and 

 treacherous of all the Indians on the plains, and had a great deal of influence over 

 the Comanches and other neighboring Indians. Our first knowledge of them was 

 through Lewis and Clarke, who found them on the Paducah. They were at war with 

 many of the northern tribes, but carried on a large trade in horses with some other 

 tribes. Little intercourse was had with them until 1853, when they made a treaty and 

 agreed to go on a reservation, but soon broke it and went raiding iptp Taxing, The citi- 



