54 THE GEOEGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



69. Ha-vyon-je-tah, the One Horn; first Cliief of the tribe; Mee-ne-coiv-e-gee band, 

 Upper Missouri ; hair tied on his head in form of a turban, and filled with glue 

 and red earth, or vermilion. 



The Sioux have forty-one bands; every band has a chief, and this man was head of 

 all; he has been recently killed by a buffalo-bull. 



(Plate No. 86, pages 209,210, vol, 1, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



Painted at Fort Pierre, on the Missouri River, in 1832, after Mr. Catlin had visiJeA 

 the Mandans. 



He told me that he toot the name of One Horn (or Shell) from a simple small shell 

 that was hanging on his neck, which descended to him from his father, and which he 

 said he valued more than anything he possessed. His costume was made of elk-skins, 

 beautifully dressed, aud fringed wiLh a profusion of porcupine quills and scalp locks; 

 and his hair, which is very long aud jirofuse, divided into two parts, and lifted up 

 and crossed over the toi? of his head, with a simple tie, giving it somewhat the ap- 

 pearance of a Turkish turban. 



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In the chase he was foremost. He could run down a buffalo, which he often had done 

 on his own legs, and drive his arrow to the heart. He was the fleetest in the tribe, 

 and in the races he had run he had always taken the prize. It was proverbial in his 

 tribe that Ha-won-je-tah's bow never was drawn in vain, and his wigwam was abun- 

 dantly furnished with scalps that he had taken from his enemies' heads in battle. — 

 Ibid., page 211. 



In the spring of 1835 Mr. Catlin made a journey to Fort Snelling and 

 the Falls of Saint Anthony. Sketches of scenery painted on this journey 

 along the Mississippi Eiver will be fotind in the miscellaneous collection, 

 from Nos. 311 to 611, herein. 



70. Wa-nah-de-tunk-ah, the Big Eagle, or Black Dog ; at the Falls of Saint Anthony. 



Chief of the O-hali-Tcas-lca-toli-y-an-te, or Long Avenue band. 



(Painted in 1835. Plate No. 234, page 134, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years. 



71. Tchan-dee, Tobacco; second chief of the nation of the 0-gIa-la (Ogalalla, see 



note) band. Upper Missouri. 



(Painted in 1835. Plate 92, page 222, vol. 1, Catlin's Eight Years. ) 



72. Wan-ee-ton, ; chief of the Sus-sc-ton (Sisseton ? see note) baud, 



Upper Missouri ; full-length, in a splendid dress ; head-dress of war-eagles' 

 quills and ermine, aud painted robe. 



One of the most noted and dignified, as well as graceful chiefs of the Sioux tribe. 

 1835. (No plate.) 



Wanata, called the grand chief. * * * jjis dress exhibits an air of state and 

 dignity which is often assumed by the aboriginal chiefs. * * * It consists of a 

 long lobe of the skin of the buffalo, skillfully prepared by the Indian women. * * » 

 Figures are traced upon this material with paint, or worked into it with splinters of 

 the quills of the porcupine, dyed with the most gaudy colors. The plumage of the 

 bird is tastefully interwoven. * * * 



Mr. Keating, in his narrative of the expedition to the source of the Saint Peter's, 

 describes an interview with this chief, and gives an account of his person and ap- 

 parel. * * * 



He was dressed iu the full habit of an Indian chief. We have never seen a more 

 dignified jjerson, or a more becoming dress. The most prominent part of his apparel 

 was a splendid cloak or mantle of buffalo skin, dressed so as to be of a fine white 

 color; it was decorated with small tufts of owl's feathers and others of various 

 hues, probably a remnant of a fabric once in general use among the aborigines of our 

 territory and still worn in the northeast and northwest parts of this continent as 



