I^SE GEORGE CATLlN INDIAN GALLERY. 215 

 PRESENT LOCATION AND NUMBEE,. 



Clioctaws at Uniou Agency, ludian Territory, August 31, 1885, 18,000. 

 All civilized. Farmers and traders. One of the five civilized tribes. 

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



SEM-I-NO-IiEE (KUNAWAY); 3,000. 



[Seminole: Laws of the United States. Seminole: Indian Bureau, June, 1885.] 



Occui)ying the peninsula of Florida ; semi-civilized, partly agricultural. The Gov- 

 ernment has succeeded in removing about one-half of them to the Arkansas, during 

 the last four years, at the expense of $32,000,000, the lives of twenty-eight or thirty 

 officers and six hundred soldiers. 



Mr. Catlin was with them at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, Decem- 

 ber, 1837, and January, 1838. 



300. Mick-e-no-pah, ; first chief of the tribe; full length, sitting cross- 

 legged. Painted in 1837. 



(Plate No. 305, page 221, vol. % Catlin's Eight Years.) 



This mau owned one hundred negroes when the war broke out, and was raising 

 large and valuable crops of corn and cotton. 



Mick-e-no-pah (No. 300) is the head chief of the tribe, and a very lusty and digni- 

 fied man. He took great pleasure in being j)resent every day in my room whilst I 

 was painting the others, but positively refused to be i^aiuted until he found that a 

 bottle of whisky and another of wine, which I kept on my mantel-piece, by permission 

 of my kind friend Captain Morrison, were only to deal out their occasional kindnesses 

 to those who sat for their portraits, w'hen he at length agreed to be painted "if I 

 could make a fair likeness of his legs," which' he had very tastefully dressed in a 

 handsome i)air of red leggins, and upon which I at once began (as he sat cross-legged), 

 by painting them on the lower part of the canvass, leaving room for his body and 

 head above; all of which, through the irresistible influence of a few kindnesses from 

 my bottle of wine, I soon fastened to the canvass, where they will firmly stand, I trust, 

 for some hundreds of years. — G. C. 



JUDGE JAMES HALL'S NOTES ON MICANOPY. 



Micauopy (head chief), with portrait, McKenney & Hall, vol.2, page 188, by in. 

 heritauce the principal chief, or head man, of all of the bands of Semiuoles; by some 

 writei's called king, and by others called governor; a very black man; his {^and- 

 father. King Payne, married a Yemassee woman, his slave. 



He commanded in the defeat and massacre of Major Dade's command, December 

 28, 1835, near the crossing of the Big and LitMe Ouithlacoochee River, Florida, w^here, 

 out of a force of more than 100, 3 only survived. 



MR. M. M. COHEN'S NOTES ON MICANOPY. 



Mr. Cohen, in his "I^otice of Florida," gives tbe following description 

 of Micauopy : 



The governor is of low, stout, and gross stature, and what is called loggy in hia 

 movements; his face is bloated and carbuncled ; eyes heavy and dull, and with a 

 mind like his person. Colonel Gadsden told me, at Payne's Lauding [that], after 



