210 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



The North Carolina Cherokee Agency is at ISTantahalah, N. C. 



Cherokees at Union Agency, Indian Territory, one of the five civil- 

 ize€l tribes, 22,000; civilized. 



The agent writes, August 29, 1884, " The number of full-blood Indians 

 is decreasing." 



(See also title, "The Five Civilized Tribes," page 221, herein.) • 



MUS-KO-GEE (CREEK). 



[Creek: Laws of the Uuited States. Creek: Indian Bureau, June, 1885. ] 



Recently removed from Georgia and Alabama to tLe Arkansas, 700 miles west of tke 

 Mississippi. Present number, 21,000 ; semi-civilized and agricultural. 



Mr. Catlin visited them near Fort Gibson in 1836. 



288. Steeh-tcha-ko-me-co, The Great King, called ''Ben Ferryman;" one of the 



chiefs of the tribe. Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 219, page 122, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



289. H6l-te-m^l-te-tez-te-neek-ee, , " Sam Perryman; " brother of the 



chief above, and a jolly, companionable man. Painted in 1836. 

 (Plate No. 220, page 122, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight years.) 

 In Plates 219 (No. 288) and 220 (No. 289) I have given the portraits of two distin- 

 guished men, and I believe both chiefs. The first by the name of Stee-elm-co-me-co 

 (The Great King), familiarly called ' ' Ben Perryman ; " and the other, Hol-te-mal-te-tez- 



ie-neelik-ee { ), called " Sam Perryman." These two men are brothers, and are 



fair specimens of the tribe, who are mostly clad in calicoes and other cloths of civil- 

 ized manufacture, tasseled and fringed off by themselves in the most fantastic way, 

 and sometimes with much true and liicturesque taste- They use a vast many beads 

 and other trinkets to hang upon their necks and ornament their moccasins and beau- 

 tiful belts.— G. C. 



Perryman is the name of the Creek chief in 1885. 



290. "Wat-al-le-go, ; a brave. 



291. Hose-piit-o-kaw-gee, ; a brave. 



292. Tcho-w-ee-put-o-ka-wr, ; woman. 



293. Tel-maz-ha-za, •; a warrior of great distinction. 



All painted in 1836 ; but no plates. 



Series of Creek photographs are noted in Hayden's Catalogue, pages 

 95, 96, from Kos. 97 to 108. 



(See also title, " The Five Civilized Tribes," page 221, herein.) 



MR. catlin's notes ON THE CREEK (OR MUS-KO-GEE) INDIANS. 



Have, until quite recently, occupied an immense tract of country in the States of 

 Mississippi and Alabama; but by a similar arrangement (and for a similar purpose) 

 with the Government have exchanged their xiossessions there for a country adjoining 

 to the Cherokees, on the south side of the Arkansas, to which they have already all 

 removed, and on which, like the Cherokees, they are laying out fine farms and build- 

 ing good houses, in which they live, in many instances surrounded by immense iields 

 of corn and wheat. There is scarcely a finer country on earth than that now owned 

 by the Creeks ; and in North America, certainly no Indian tribe more advanced in the 



