122. THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



are addicted to dances, and insist upon them. The Sun dance, an ex- 

 ceedingly barbarous one, common to the Sioux and other northwestern 

 tribes, is their preference. It has been suppressed at most agencies. 



CIIIP-PE-WAYS (OJIBBEWAYS). 



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



A very numerous tribe, of some 15,000 or 20,000, inhabiting a vast tract of counUy 

 on the southern shores of Lake Superior, Lake of the Woods, and the Athabasca, ex- 

 tending a great, way into the British territory ; residing in skin and bark lodges. 



Mr. Oatlin met some of them on the Yellowstone at Fort Union in 

 1832, and visited them on the Upper Mississippi, at and near Fort 

 Snelling and at the Falls of Saint Anthony in 1835, and again at Sault 

 de St. Marie in 1836. 



182. Sha-co-pay, the Six ; chief of the Ojibbeways living north of the mouth of the 



Yellowstone River; in a rich dress, with his battles emblazoned on it. 



Painted in 1832. 



(Plate No. 35, page 58, vol. 1, Catliu's Eight Years.) 

 The chief of that part of the Ojibbeway tribe who inhabit these northern regions 

 (plate No. 35, No. 182), and whose name is Sha-c6-pay (the Six), is a man of huge 

 size, with dignity of manner and pride and vanity just about in proportion to his 

 bulk. He sat for his portrait in a most beautiful dress fringed with scalp-locks in 

 profusion which he had snatched in his early life from his enemies' heads and now 

 wears as proud trophies and proofs of what his arm has accomplished in battles with 

 his enemies. His shirt of buckskin is beautifully embroidered and painted in curious 

 hieroglyphics with the history of his battles and the- charts of his life. — G. C. 



183. Kay-a-gis-gis, ; a beautiful young woman pulling her hair out of 



braid. Painted in 1832. 



184. Hah-jc-day-ali-sh.ee, the Meeting Birds; a brave, with his war-club in his hand. 



(No plate.) Painted in 1835. 



185. Kay-ee-qua-da-kum-ee-gish-kum, He who tries the Ground with his Foot. 



Painted at Sault de Sainte Marie in 1836. (No plate.) 



186. Ju-ah-kis-gaw, ; woman, with her child in a cradle or "crib." Painted 



in 1834. 



(Plate No. 245, page 139, vol. 2, Cathiu's Eight Years.) 

 The portrait of a Chippeway woman, Ju-ah-kis-gaiv, with her child in its crib or cradle. 

 In a former letter I gave a minute account of the Sioux cradle, and here the reader 

 sees the very similar mode amongst the Chippeway ; and as in all instances that can 

 be found, the ni-ahkust-alig (or umbilicus) hanging before the child's face for its super- 

 natural protector. 



This woman's dress was mostly made of civilized manufactures, but curiously dec- 

 orated and ornamented according to Indian taste. — G. C. 



187. Cah-be mtib-bee (Ka-be mub-be). He who sits everywhere ; a brave. Paint- 



ed in 1834. 



(Plate No. 242, page 139, vol. 2, Catliu's Eight Years.) 

 Of the x>ortraits of chiefs and others I have painted amongst the Chippeways at 

 this place, two distinguished young men will be seen in plates 241, 24-2, Nos. 186 and 



