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of G. H. C. Melody, with Jeffrey Doraway, a mulatto, as interpreter. 

 They were exhibited in connection with Mr. Catlin's gallery in England 

 and also in France, in 1844, 1845, and 1846. A small catalogue was 

 prepared, of 28 pages, giving the manners and customs of the loways. 



Mr. Catlin saw them immediately upon their arrival in London, and 

 found " WLite Cloud" (iNo. 250), is"eu-mon-ya (Xo. 258), and Wash-ka- 

 mon-ya (jSTo. 260), old acquaintances, whom he had painted in the 

 Iowa village, on the Missouri, in 1832. 



When they saw him they rose to their feet and saluted him: "How, 

 how, how," Chip-pe-ho-la, " Medicine Paint," the name he was always 

 known by amongst the Indians on the plains, from 1830 to 1838. 



Mr. Catlin wrote the descriptive catalogue. As it contains much of 

 interest relative to the lowas it is given below in full : 



THE FOURTEEN lOWAY INDIANS. 

 CHIEFS. 

 No. 1. Mew-hu-she-kaw, White Cloud; first cliiefof tlie natiou. (See No. 256). 

 No. 2. Neu-mon-ya, Walkiug Rain ; third chief. (See No. 258.) 

 No. 3. Se-non-ty-yah, Blister Feet ; great raediciue mau. 



WAREIOES AND BEAYES. 



No. 4. Wash-kanion-ya, Fast Dancer. (See No. S60.) 



No. 5. No-ho-niiin-ya, One who gives no attention. 



No. 6. Shon-ta-yi-ga, Little Wolf. 



No- 7. Wa-tan-ye, One alwaj's foremost. 



No. 8. Wa-ta-we-bii-ka-iia, Comuianding General; the son of Walking Rain, 10 

 years old. 



No. 9. Jeflrey Doraway, the interpreter. 



SQUAWS. 

 No. 10. Rutoii-ye-we-ma, Strutting Pigeon ; White Cloud's wife. 

 No. 11. Ruton-we-me, Pigeon on the Wing. 



No. 12. Oke-we-me, Female Bear that walks on the hack of another. 

 Nc. 13. Kocn-za-ya-me, Female War Eagle Sailing. 

 N <. 14. Ta-pa-ta-me, Sophia, wisdom ; AVhite Cloud's danghter. 

 T ). 15. Corsair, A papoose. 



MR. CATLLN'S NOTKS OX THE lOWAYS AND THEIR MODES, 1844. 



The loway is at present a small tribe of 2,000, or thereahoxits, living on the banks 

 of the Missouri River, seven or eight hundred miles above its junction with the Mis- 

 sissippi, in the territory of the United States. This tribe lost two-thirds of its num- 

 bers a few years siuce by tiie ravages of the small-pox ; and the remainder of them 

 are now living under the authority of Myw-liu-she-kaw (the White Cloud), the hered- 

 itary chief, ami sun of a famous chief of that name who died a few years since. (See 

 No. 25G.) 



