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the great peculiarity of whif';i was an immense under lip, hanging nearly to his 

 chin. — Mrs. John H. Kiuzie, " "^^'au-Bun," p. 89. 



The whole tribe (Winnebagccs) were fairly carried by Tecumthe (Tecumseh ?) and his 

 brother, the Prophet, and gave hearty supi^ort to all the nefarious schemes of these 

 agitators. Naw-Kaw(No. 209), the principal chief of the nation, andHoo-tshoop-Kaw, 

 of lesser note, were two of Tecumthe's personal attendants, and followed him in all his 

 extended missions of proselytism among the nations of the Mississippi Valley. In the 

 Avar of 1812 these two Winuebagoes were members of the sacred band that guarded 

 Tecumthe's person ; they were near him when he fell with mortal wounds at the 

 battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813, and assisted in bearing his dead body from the 

 field to a place of secure interment.* — Hiram W. Beckwith, the " Illinois and Indiana 

 Indians," Fergus' Historical Series, No. 27, Chicago, 111., 1884. 



Again, Mr. Atwater, in his history of Ohio, says in this connection, 

 while at Prarie dii Chien in 1829, Naw-Caw (Kaw) (Wood) and Hoo- 

 tshoop-Kaw (Four legs) were with him, "and that from statements of 

 these constant companions of Tecumthe during nearly twenty years of 

 his life, we j)roceed to state that Tecumthe lay with his warriors in a 

 thick underbrush on the left of the American army at the battle of the 

 Thames, October 5, 1813; that these Indians were at no period of the 

 battle out of their thick underbrush; that Kaw-Caw (Kaw) saw no offi- 

 cer between them and the American army; that Tecumthe fell [at] the 

 very first fire of the Kentucky dragoons, pierced, by thirty bullets, 

 and was carried four or five miles into the thick woods, and there buried 

 by the warriors, who told the story of his fate. This account was re- 

 peated to me three several times word for word, and neither of the 

 relators ever kn^ the fictions to which Tecumthe's death has given rise. " 



For an interesting account of the death of Tecumseh from an inter- 

 terview with l^Toonday, an Ottawa chief, who was at the battle of the 

 Thames when Tecumseh was killed, reciting that Eichard M. Johnson, 

 of Kentucky, killed him, see The Century for June, 1885. The inter- 

 view was taken in 1835 by D. B. Cook, of Mies, Mich. 



210. Ka-w-ka-w-ne-chdo-a, ; a brave. Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 256, page 146, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



211. Wa-kou-chash-ka-w, He who comes on the Thunder. Painted in 1836. 



(No plate.) 



212. Naw-naw-pay-ee, the Soldier. 



213. Wah-kon-ze-ka-w, the Snake. Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 257, page 146, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 Fair specimens of the tribe, who are generally a rather short and thick-set, square- 

 shouldered set of men, of great strength and of decided character, brave and des- 

 perate in war. — G. C. 



See also Wa-kawu, The Snake. — McKenny & Hall, page 175, vol. 2, 

 with portrait. 



* At the treaty of Prarie du Chien, conclndod August 1, 1829, at which tlie Winnebagoos ceded their 

 lands in niinois and Wisconsin to the United states, Caleb Atwater, esq., one of the United States 

 Commissioners there, met Kaw-Kaw, who, he says, '' complaiued to mo that, in all of our accounts of 

 Tecumthe (Tecumseh), wo had only said of him that, ' Winnebago who always accomp.anies Tecum- 

 the without calling tho Winuobago by his name, Xaw-Kaw-Casoraaino.' "— Afwaicc's Toar to Frairiti 

 du Ghicn. 



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