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of G. H. C. Melody, with Jeffrey Dora way, a mulatto, us interpreter. 

 They were exhibited ill connection with Mr. Catlin's gallery in England 

 and also in France, in 1844, 1845, and 1846. A small catalogue was 

 prepared, of 28 pages, giving the manners and customs of the Ioways. 



Mr. Catlin saw them immediately upon their arrival iu London, and 

 found « White Cloud" (No. 256), Neu-mou-ya (No. 258), and Wash-ka- 

 mon-ya (No. 200), old acquaintances, whom he had painted iu the 

 Iowa village, on the Missouri, in 1832. 



When they saw him they rose to their feet and saluted him: "How, 

 how, how, ,? Chip-pe-ho-la, " Medicine Paint," the name he was always 

 known by amongst the Indians on the plains, from 1830 to 1838. 



Mr. Catlin wrote the descriptive catalogue. As it contains much of 

 interest relative to the Iowas it is given below in full: 



THE FOURTEEN IOWAY INDIANS. 

 CHIEFS. 

 No. 1. Mew-hu-she-kaw, White Cloud ; first chief of the nation. (See No. 256). 

 No. 2. Neu-mon-ya, Walking Rain ; third chief. (See No. 258.) 

 No. 3. Se-non-ty-yah, Blister Feet ; great medicine man. 



WARRIORS AND BRAVES. 



No. 4. Wash-ka-mon-ya, Fast Dancer. (See No. 360.) 



No. 5. No-ho-mun-ya, One who gives no attention. 



No. 6. Shon-ta-yi-ga, Little Wolf. 



No. 7. Wa-tan-ye, One always foremost. 



No. 8. Wa-ta-we-bu-ka-na, Commanding General; the son of Walking Rain, 10 

 years old. 



No. 9. Jeffrey Doraway, the interpreter. 



SQUAWS. 

 No. 10. Ruton-ye-we-ma, Strutting Pigeon ; White Cloud's wife. 

 No. 11. Ruton-we-me, Pigeon on the Wing. 



No. 12. Oke-we-me, Female Bear that walks on the hack of another. 

 Nc. 13. Koon-za-ya-me, Female War Eagle Sailing. 

 N .. 14. Ta-pa-ta-me, Sophia, wisdom ; White Cloud's daughter. 

 I' x 15. Corsair, A papoose. 



MR. CATLIN'S NOTES ON THE IOWAYS AND THEIR MODES, 1844. 



The Ioway is at present a small trihe of 2,000, or thereabouts, living on the banks 

 of the Missouri River, seveu or eight hundred miles above its junction with the Mis- 

 sissippi, in the territory of the United States. This tribe lost two-thirds of its num- 

 bers a few years since by the ravages of the small-pox ; and the remainder of them 

 are now living under the authority of Mew-hu-she-kaw (the White Cloud), the hered- 

 itary chief, and son of a famous chief of that name who died a few years since. (See 

 No. 25G.) 



