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the great peculiarity of whi<\> was an immense under lip, hanging nearly to his 

 chin.— Mrs. John H. Kiuzie, " ^'au-Buu," p. 89. 



The whole tribe (Winnebagt»os) were fairly carried by Tecuuithe (Tecumseh ?) and his 

 brother, the Prophet, and gave hearty support to all the nefarious schemes of these 

 agitators. Naw-Kaw (No. 209), the principal chief of the nation, andlloo-tshoop-Kaw, 

 of lesser note, were two of Tecumthe's personal attendants, and followed him in all his 

 extended missions of proselytism among the nations of the Mississippi Valley. In the 

 war of 1812 these two Winnebagoes were members of the sacred band that guarded 

 Tecumthe's person ; they were near him when he fell with mortal wounds at the 

 battle of the Thames, October 5, 181:5, and assisted in bearing his dead body from the 

 field to a place of secure interment.* — Hiram W. Beckwith, the " Illinois and Indiana 

 Indiaus," Fergus' Historical Series, No. 27, Chicago, 111., 1884. 



Again, Mr. Atwater, in his history of Ohio, says in this connection, 

 while at Prarie du Chien in 1829, Naw-Caw (Kaw) (Wood) and Hoo- 

 tshoop-Kaw (Four legs) were with him, "and that from statements of 

 these constant companions of Tecnmthe during nearly twenty years of 

 his life, we proceed to state that Tecumthe lay with his warriors in a 

 thick underbrush on the left of the American army at the battle of the 

 Thames, October 5, 1813; that these Indians were at no period of the 

 battle out of their thick underbrush; that ETaw-Caw (Kaw) saw no offi- 

 cer between them and the American army; that Tecumthe fell [at] the 

 very first fire of the Kentucky dragoons, pierced by thirty bullets, 

 and was carried four or five miles into the thick woods, and there buried 

 by the warriors, who told the story of his fate. This account was re- 

 peated to me three several times word for word, and neither of the 

 relators ever knew the fictions to which Tecumthe's death has given rise. " 



For an interesting account of the death of Tecumseh from an inter- 

 terview with Noonday, an Ottawa chief, who was at the battle of the 

 Thames, when Tecumseh was killed, reciting that Richard M. Johnson, 

 of Kentucky, killed him, see The Century for June, 1885. The inter- 

 view was taken in 1835 by D. B. Cook, of Niles, Mich. 



210. Kaw-kaw-ne-ch6o-a, ; a brave. Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 256, page 146, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



211. Wa-kon-chash-kaw, He who conies on the Thunder. Painted in 1836. 



(No plate.) 



212. Naw-naw-pay-ee, the Soldier. 



213. Wah-kon-ze-kaw, the Snake. Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 257, page 146, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 Fair specimens of the tribe, who are generally a rather short and thick-set, square- 

 shouldered set of men, of great strength and of decided character, brave and des- 

 perate in war. — G. C. 



See also Wa-kawn, The Snake.— McKenny & Hall, page 175, vol. 2, 

 wifch portrait. 



* At the treaty of Prarie du Chien, concluded August 1, 1829, at which the Winnebagoes ceded their 

 lands in Illinois and Wisconsin to the United States, Caleb Atwater, esq., one of the United States 

 Commissioners there, met Naw-Kaw, who, he says, li complained to me that, in all of our accounts of 

 Tecumthe (Tecumseh), we had only said of him that, ' Winnebago who always accompanies Tecum- 

 the without calling the Winnebago by his name, Xaw-Kaw-Casornaine.'"— Atwatcr's Tour to Prairie, 

 du Chien. 



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