34 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



which Black Hawk and his adherents declared had never been done. It is said that 

 Neopope directed to a great extent the movements of the hand from tho time they re- 

 crossed to the east side of the Mississippi until the close of tho war. He made his 

 escape at the battle of Bad Axe, but was captured and brought in by the Sioux. With 

 Black Hawk, the Prophet, and other prisoners, he was taken to Jefferson Barracks 

 and east. * * * 



After his capture, and while on his way to Jefferson Barracks, he 

 met General Winfield Scott at Eock Island and made a statement to 

 him of the Indian side of the cause of the Black Hawk war — a model 

 of concise statement. He remained with his tribe after his return from 

 the east in 1833, and removed with it to Kansas, where he died about 

 1849. His fortunes followed Black Hawk's — obscurity was his fate. 



9. Ah-mou-a, the Whale, one of Kee-o-kiik's principal braves; holding a handsome 



war-club in his hand. Painted in 1834. 



(Plate No. 237, page 211, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



10. Wa-quoth-e-qua, the Buck's Wife, or Female Deer; the wife of Ah-m6u-a. 



Painted in 1834. 



(Plate No. 288, page 211, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



Ah-m6u-a, the Whale, and his wife, are fair specimens of this tribe (Sac). Her 

 name is Wa-qu6th-e-qua (the Buck's Wife, or Female Deer), and she was wrapped in 

 a Mackinaw blanket, whilst he was curiously dressed, and held his war club in his 

 hand. Page 211, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years. 



11. Pash-ee-pa-ho (Pashepaho), the Little Stabbing Chief; holding his staff of office 



in his hand, shield and pipe. 



A very venerable old man, who has been for many years the first civil chief of tho 

 Sacs and Foxes. 1834. 



(Plate 289, page 211, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



This personage, whose name signifies The Stabber, perhaps should not bo rated as 

 one of the minor chiefs, for he was at the time of the Saint Louis treaty of 1804 the 

 head chief of the Sac tribe. He was even then well advanced in years, and as the 

 greater portion of his career had passed before the Sacs and Foxes came into very 

 intimate relations with the whites, but comparatively little is known of him. He 

 was one of the five representatives of his nation who negotiated the treaty of 1804 

 with William Henry Harrison, and which was so bitterly complained of by Black 

 Hawk. We have but very meager details of his deeds as a warrior, but it is very 

 probable that he stood high among his people in that respect. It was under his lead- 

 ership that the Iowas were subjugated in the great decisive battle on the Des Moines 

 in the early part of the present century. 



Soon after the establishment of Fort Madison, Pashepaho became the chief actor in 

 a plot to attack and destroy that fort and its garrison. His plan was to gain admit- 

 tance for himself and some of his warriors to the fort with arms concealed under their 

 blankets, pretending, however, that they were desirous of holding a council. The 

 plot was disclosed to the commandant of the garrison by a young squaw who had 

 been on terms of intimacy with some of the officers, so that when Pashepaho and his 

 warriors presented themselves at the gate they found it guarded with a loaded cannon, 

 and the gunner with lighted torch in his hand ready to fire. 



Subsequent to his plot against Fort Madison, Pashepaho made an attempt to gain 

 a lodgment in Fort Armstrong at Rock Island, though in quite a different way. The 

 year before, while some of his warriors were on a hunting excursion they fell in with 



