212 THE GEOEGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



CHOC-TAW. 



[Choctaw : Laws of the United States. Choctaws and Ch'ah'ta : Indian Bureau, 



June, 1885.] 



Recently removed by Government from the States of Georgia and Alabama to the 

 Arkansas, seven hundred miles west of the Mississippi. Present number [in 1836], 

 15,000. Semi-civilized. 



Mr. Catlin was with the Choctaws near Fort Gibson in 183G. They 

 were on a large tract of rich land south of the Arkansas and the Cana- 

 dian Eivers. They were living adjoining the Creeks and the Cherokees, 

 now Indian Territory. 



294. M6-sho-la-ttib-bee, He who Puts Out and' Kills; first chief of the tribe. 



Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 221, page 123, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 A gentlemanly-looking man (died recently of small-pox). 



A very interesting account of this man and his family ciin be found 

 in two pamphlets, viz : 



A thrilling sketch of the life of the distinguished chief Okah Tubbee, alias William 

 Chubbee, son of the head chief Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians, 

 by Rev. L. L. Allen, 12mo., pp. 43: N. Y., 1843; and 



A sketch of the life of Okah Tubbee, alias William Chubbee, son of the head chief 

 Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians, by Laah Ceilmanatoi Elaah- 

 Tubbee, his wife. 12mo., cover 2 1., pp. 84: Springfield, Mass. Printed for Okah 

 Tubbee, by H. S. Taylor, 1848. 



295. Kut-tee-o-tub-bee, How Did He Kill? A noted brave. Painted in 1836. 



296. Ha-tchoo-tuc-knee, The Snapping Turtle; Peter P. Pitchlynn, half-bred and 



well educated man. Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 222, page 123, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 The portrait of a distinguished and very gentlemanly man, who has been well edu- 

 cated and who gave me much curious and valuable information of the history and 

 traditions of his tribe. Familiarly called by the whites, Peter P. Pitchlynn. 



297. , woman; hair in braid; remarkable expression. 



298. Tul-lock-chish-ko, He who Drinks the Juice of the Stone. 



299. Tul-lock-chish-ko, He who Drinks the Juice of the Stone. Full length, in 



the dress and attitude of a ball-player, with ball-sticks in his hand, and a 

 tail, made of white horse-hair, attached to his belt. Painted in 1836. 

 (Plate No. 223, page 125, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 Mr. Catlin witnessed a game of ball by the Choctaws in 1836. (See 

 description hereafter in " Games.") 



The mode in which these sticks (for playing ball) are constructed and used will be 

 seen in the portrait of Tul-lock-chfsh-ko (He who Drinks the Juice of the Stone), 

 the most distinguished ball-player of the Choctaw Nation (No. 299), represented in 

 his ball-play dress, with his ball-sticks in his hands. 



In every ball-play of these people it is a rule of the play that no man shall wear 

 moccasins on his feet, or any other dress than his breech-cloth around his waist, with 

 a beautiful bead belt, and a "tail," made of white horse-hair or quills, and a '^mane" 

 on the neck, of horse-hair, dyed of various colors. — G. C. 



A scries of photographs of Choctaws may be found in Hayden's Cata- 

 logue, page 98, 13 numbers. 



