4 List of Engravings. 



Indian record of a battle between the Pawnees and Konzas, as delineated on a bi- 

 son robe. — This delineation was copied by Mr. T. R. Peale from a bison robe presented 

 to Major O'Fallon at the Pawnee council, treated of in Vol. I. page 159, et seq. Ft serves to 

 exhibit the state of the art of drawing amongst the Pawnee Indians, or rather amongst the 

 Missouri Indians generally. The following is the subject of this sketch. A pedestrian war- 

 party of eighteen Konzas approached the Pawnee villages for the purpose of capturing horses 

 and taking scalps. Before their object was accomplished, they were discovered and attacked 

 by a superior force of Pawnees on horseback, who, after an obstinate conflict, succeeded in 

 destroying every individual of the party. In this sketch it will be remarked that 16 of the 

 Pawnees are armed with shields which defend the whole body, with the exception of the head; 

 the heads of many of the Pawnees are decorated with bison horns, and feathers, and others 

 with feathers only. They are armed with spears, battle axes, and one or two fusees; one indivi- 

 dual carries a flag of feathers, and one carries a whip; many of the horses are represented with 

 human scalps depending from their mouths, an ornament very commonly seen on the horses 

 of warriors; two of the horses are represented as branded. 



The Konzas were armed with bows and arrows and fusees; nine are represented as decapi- 

 tated, and the wounds arc indicated by the flowing of blood from the wounded part: six 

 scalps only remain on the robe, the others probably having been obliterated. 



The figures were brilliantly coloured with red, yellow, black, and green, and those of the 

 Pawnees were accompanied by some mark by which their names might be recognised. 



An Ioway Indian, on seeing this robe, readily deciphered the whole. 



For further illustration of this subject, see Vol- 1, pages 287, 296, and 440. 



View of the insulated table lands at the base of the Rocky Mountains. — See Vol. 

 II. pp. 351,389, 404. 



Geological Chart, containing vertical sections on the parallels of 35 and 41 degrees of 

 north latitude. — See Vol. II. page 442. 



