56 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAK GALLERY. 



lu this beautiful aud favorite game each player is adorned with an embroidered 

 belt and a tail of beautiful quills or horse-hair ; the arms, legs, and feet are always 

 naked and cariously painted. (See two paintings of ball-plays, and further descrip- 

 tion of the game, under Amusements, Nos. 428, 429, 430, and the ball-sticks among the 

 manufactures.) 



(Painted in 1835. See Plates Nos. 235, 236, page 134, vol. 2, Catlin's 

 Eight Years.) 



76. Ka-pes-ka-da, the Shell, a brave of the 0-gla-la band. (No plate.) 



77. Tah-zee-keh-da-cha, the Torn Belly, a very distinguished brave of the Yanlc-ion 



band, Uj)per Missouri. (No plate.) 



78. ■Wuk-mi-ser, Corn, a warrior of distinction of the iVe-cfflw-ee-^/ee band. (No plate.) 



79. Cha-tee wah-nee-che, No Heart ; a very noted Indian ; chief of th» Wah-ne- 



watch-to -nee-nah band. (No plate.) 



80. Ee'ah-sa-pa, the Black Rock ; chief of the Nec-caiv-ivee-f/ee band. A very digni- 



iied chief, in a beautiful dress, full length, head-dress of eagles' quills and 

 ermine, and horns of the buffalo; lance in his hand, and battles of his life 

 emblazoned on his robe. 



Six feet or more in stature. (Painted 1835, plate No. 91, page 222, vol. 

 1, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



81. "Wi-looh-tah-eeli-tcliah-ta-inah-nee, the Red Thing that touches in Marching; 



a young girl, and the daughter of Black Eoclc (No. 80) by her side ; her 

 dress of deer-skin, and ornamented Avith brass buttons and beads. 

 (Plate 95, page 223, vol. 1, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



Much esteemed for her beauty and modesty. Her hair was plaited. Her ears 

 supported a great profusion of curious beads, and over her other dress she wore a 

 handsomely garnished buffalo robe. — Ihid. 



Several years after I left the Sioux country, I saw Messrs. Chardon and Piquot, two 

 of the traders from that country, who recently had left it, and told me in Saint Louis, 

 whilst looking at the portrait of this girl (No. 81), that while staying in Mr. Laid- 

 law's fort in 1840, the chief Black Rock (Ee-^ii-sii-pa, No. 80), entered the room sud- 

 denly w^here the portrait of his daughter was hanging on the wall, and pointing to it 

 Avith a heavy heart, told Mr. Laidlaw that whilst his band was out on the prairies, 

 whore they had been for several months " making meat," his daughter had died, and 

 was there buried. "My heart is glad again," said he, " when I see her here alive ; 

 and I want the one the medicine-man made of her, which is now before me, that I 

 can see her and talk to her. My band are all in mourning for her, and at the gate of 

 your fort, which I have just passed, are ten horses for you, and Ee-iih-sii-pa's wig- 

 wam, which, you know, is the best one in the Sioux nation. I wish you to take down 

 my daughter and give her to me." Mr. Laidlaw, seeing the unusually liberal price 

 that this nobleman was willing to pay for a portrait, and the true grief that he ex- 

 pressed for the loss of his child, had not the heart to abuse such noble feeling, and 

 taking the painting from the wall, placed it in his hands, telling him that it of 

 right belonged to him, and that his horses and wigwam he must take back and keeji' 

 them to mend, as far as possible, his liberal hea,rt, which was broken by the loss of 

 his only daughter. — Page 224, vol. 1, Catlin's Eight Years. 



82. Toh-ki-e-to, the Stone with Horns ; chief of the YanJc-ion (see note) band^ and 



principal orator of the nation ; his body curiously tattoed. 



(Painted 1832. Plate No. 93, page 222, vol. 1, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 The neck and breast and shoulders of this man were curiously tattooed, by prick- 

 ing in gunpowder and vermilion, which, in this extraordinary instance, was put on 



