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58. Kah-kee-tsee, tho Thighs. 



59. She-de-ah, Wild Sage. 

 Both of these women were prisoners among the Osages; they were purchased by 



the Indian Commissioner, Rev. Mr. Schemmerhorn, and sent home to the nation by the 

 dragoons. 



(Plates Nos. 17G and 177, page 74, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 Amongst the women of this tribe there were many that were exceedingly pretty 

 in feature and in form, and also in expression, though their skins are very dark. The 

 women * * * are always decently and comfortably clad, being covered generally 

 with a gown or slip that reaches from the chin quite down to the ankles, made of 

 deer or elk skins, often garnished very prettily and ornamented with long fringes of 

 elk's teeth, which are fastened on them in rows, and more highly valued than any 

 other ornament they can put upon them. — Geo. Catlin, pages 73, 74, vol. 2, Catlin's 

 Eight Years. 



60. Ah-sho-cole, Rotten Foot ; a noted warrior. 183-1. (No plate.) 



61. Ah-re-kaK-na-c6-chee, the Mad Elk ; a great warrior. 1834. (No plate.) 



Jackson says, in 1877 : 



There are also living on the Washita a small baud of affiliated Wacos and Wichitas, 

 sometimes called Pawnee Picts, who are undoubtedly an offshoot of the Grand Paw- 

 nees. 



PRESENT LOCATION AND CONDITION. 



At Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency, Indian Territory, Aug- 

 ust 31, 1885: Wacoes, 39; Wichitas, 109; slowly decreasing. 

 Agent Hunt writes, August 31, 1885: 



The Wichitas have kept up a steady improvement siuce I have had charge of them, 

 and I venture the assertion that they are the best Indian farmers in the Territory to- 

 day. 



KI-O-WA. 



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

 Also a wild and predatory tribe of 5,000 or 6,000, living on the west of the Pawnee 

 Picts and Camanchees, and also in alliance with those warlike and powerful tribes. 

 They inhabit the base of, and extend their wars and hunts through, a great extent of 

 the Rocky Mountains ; and, like the Camanchees, are expert and wonderful horsemen, 

 roaming the entire country on the headwaters of the Red River, into and through 

 the southern part of the Rocky Mountains. 



Mr. Catlin saw them in July and August of 1834, on Dodge's cam- 

 paign. 



62. Teh-t6ot-sah, , first chief. 



This man treated the dragoons with great kindness in his country, and came in with 

 us to Fort Gibson ; his hair was very long, extending down as low as his knees, 

 and put up in clubs, and ornamented with silver brooches. The manner of dressing 

 his hair is peculiar. 



(Painted 1836. Plate No. 178, page 74, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



63. Kotz-a-to-ah, the Smoked Shield; a distinguished warrior; full-length. 

 Another of the extraordinary men of this tribe, near seven feet in stature, and dis- 

 tinguished, not only as one of the greatest warriors, but the swiftest on foot in the 

 nation. This man, it is said, runs down a buffalo on foot and slays it with his knife 

 or his lance as he runs by its side. 



(Painted 1834. Plate Mo. 182, page 75, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



