108 THE GEOEGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



ing the Crows, upon whom alone nature has bestowed this conspicuous and signal 

 ornament. 



The Crow women are not handsome. * * * They are like all other Indian women,, 

 the slaves of their husbands, being obliged to perform all the domestic duties and 

 drudgeries of the tribe, and not allowed to join in their religious rites or ceremonies,, 

 nor in the dance or other amusements. 



167. Duhk-pits-o-6-see, the Red Bear. Painted in 1832, 



(Plate No. 26, page 50, vol. 1, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



168. Pa-ris-ka-rod-pa, the Two Crows (the younger), called the *' Philosopher." 

 Painted in 1832. 



(Plate No. 27, page 50, vol. 1, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 A young man distinguished as an orator and "wise man, though the character of hi& 

 face and head would almost appear like a deformity. 



I have also painted Pa-ris-ka-ro6-pa (two Crows) the younger (plate 27, No. 168),. 

 one of the most extraordinary men in ihe Crow nation ; not only for his looks, from 

 the form of his head, which seems to be distortion itself — and curtailed of all its fair 

 proportions ; but from his extraordinary sagacity as a counselor and orator, even at 

 an early stage of his life. 



There is something very uncommon in this outline, and sets forth the striking pe- 

 culiarity of the Crow tribe, though rather in an exaggerated form. The semi-lunar 

 outline of the Crow head, with an exceedingly low and retreating forehead, is cer- 

 tainly a very peculiar and striking characteristic ; and though not so strongly marked 

 in most of the tribe as in the present instance, is sufficient for their detection when- 

 ever they are met. — G. C. 



169. Bi-eets-ee-cure, the Very Sweet Man, Painted in 1832. (No plate.) 



Mr. Catlin in 1855 again met the Crows in Salmon Eiver Valley, west 

 of the Eocky Mountains (at Florence, Idaho Territory), and found this. 

 man Bi-6ets-ee-cnre alive and with the tribe. In his " Last Eambies,'" 

 j)ages 152 to 159, Mr. Catlin writes of his second meeting with the 

 Crows. 



MR. CATLIN'S NOTES ON THE CROW INDIANS IN SALMON RIVER VALLEY, 



1854-'55. 



After a five days' march (from Walla Walla), their course being to the right, and 

 through the Snake River Valley, we were obliged to part company, and Csesar and I, 

 ■with an Indian guide, took to the left, hugging as near as we could the ragged and 

 frightful, and all but impassable, southern bank of the Salmon River, until at lengtli, 

 after many days of deep repentance, we entered the more calm and beautiful meadows- 

 and prairies of the Salmon River Valley. 



Our ride (or rather walk, for we had to walk and climb most of the way, leading 

 our horses) was one which I deeply regretted from day to day, but which I never 

 have regretted since it was finished. The eighth day opened to our view one of the 

 most verdant and beautiful valleys in the world ; and on the tenth a distant smoke 

 was observed, and under it the skin-tents, which I at once recognized as of a Crow 

 village. 



I was again amongst my old friends, the Crows ! men whose beautiful forms and 

 native, gentlemanly grace had not been deformed by squatting in canoes, nor eyes 

 bridled by scowling on the glistening sun reflected on the water, or heads squeezed 

 into wedges, or lips stretched around blocks of wood. 



As soon as we were dismounted, and in the midst of the crowd around us, I was 

 struck more forcibly than ever with the monstrous and pitiable deformities of mao 



