THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 57 



in suck elaborate profusion as to appear at a little distance like a beautifully em- 

 broidered dress. In kis kand lie keld a kandsome pipe, tke stem of wkick was several 

 feet long, and all tke way wound witk ornamented braids of tke porcupine quills ; 

 around kis body was wrapped a (see plate) valued robe, made of tke skin of tke grizzly 

 bear, and on kis neck several strings of ivampum, an ornament seldom seen amongst 

 tke Indians in tke far West and tke Nortk. 



I was muck amused witk tke excessive vanity and egotism of tkis notorious man, 

 who, wkilst sitting for kis picture, took occasion to kave tke interpreter constantly 

 explaining to me tke wonderful effects wkick kis oratory kad at different times pro- 

 duced on tke minds of tke ckiefs and people of kis tribe. He told me tkat it was a 

 very easy tking for kim to set all tke women of tke tribe crying, and tkat all tke 

 ckiefs listened profoundly to kis voice before tkey went to war, and at last summed 

 up by saying tkat ke was " tke greatest orator in tke Sioux Nation," by wkick be un- 

 doubtedly meant tke greatest in tke world ! 



83. Mah-t6-rah-rish-nee-e£h-ee-rah, tke Grisly Bear that runs without Regard ; a 



brave of tke Onc-pah-pa band. 1832. (No plate.) 



84. Mah-t6-che-ga, tke Little Bear; a distinguisked brave. One-capapa. (See 



note.) 



(Painted 1832. Plate No. 273, page 190, vol. 2, Catlin's Eigkt Years.) 



85. Shon-ka, tke Dog ; ckief of tke Ca-za-zkee-ta: Bad Arrow Points band. 



(Painted 1832. Plate No. 275, page 190, vol. 2, Catlin's Eigkt Years.) 



86. T£h-teck-a-da-hair, tke Steep Wind ; a Brave of tke Ca-za-zhee-ta (or Bad Ar- 



row Points) band. 1822. 

 Tkese tkree distinguisked men (No. 84, 85, and 86) were all killed in a private quar- 

 rel (wkile I was in tke country), occasioned by my painting only one-half of tke face 

 of tke first (No. 84) ; ridicule followed, and resort to fire-arms, in wkick tkat side of 

 tke face wkick I kad left out was blown off in a few moments after I kad finisked tke 

 portrait; and sudden and violent revenge for tke offense soon laid tke otker two in 

 tke dust, and imminently endangered my own life. (For a full account of tkis strange 

 transaction, see Catlin's Letters and Notes on Nortk American Indians, pages 90, 

 91, 189, vol. 2.) 



87. Heh-h£h-ra-pah, tke Elk's Head; ckief of tke Ee-ta-sip-shov band, Upper Mis- 



souri. Painted 1832. (No plate.) 



88. Mak-to-een-nah-pa, tke Wkite Bear tkat goes out; ckief of tke Blackfoot Sioux 



band. Painted 1832. (No plate.) 



89. Tch6n-su-m6ns-ka, tke Sand Bar ; woman of tke Te-ton band, witk a beautiful 



bead of kair ; ker dress almost literally covered witk brass buttons, wkick 



are kigkly valued by tke women to adorn tkeir dresses. Painted 1832. 



(Plate No. 94, page 223, vol. 1, Catlin's Eigkt Years.) 



Wife of a wkite man named Ckardon, a Frenckman in tke employ of tke American 



Fur Company as a trader and interpreter. Very rickly dressed. Her kair, wkick 



was inimitably beautiful and soft and glossy as silk, fell over ker skoulders in 



great profusion and in beautiful waves, produced by tke condition in wkick it is 



generally kept in braids giving to it, wken combed out, a waving form, adding muck 



to its native appearance, wkick is invariably straigkt and graceless.— Ibid. 



90. W£-be-shaw, tke Leaf; Upper Mississippi; ckief of a band; blind in one eye; 



a very distinguisked man ; since dead. 



(Painted 1835. See page 132, vol. 2, Catlin's Eigkt Years.) 

 " W£-a-pa-skaw," kead ckief of tke Keoxa tribe of tke Dacotak Nation. (Relation- 



