598 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



THE IOWAYS OPEN AT EGYPTIAN HALL. 



The evening for their first appearance before the public having arrived, the Ioways 

 were prepared in all their rouge and fine dresses, and made their debut before a fashion- 

 able but not a crowded audience. Their very appearance as they entered the room 

 was so wild and classic that it called forth applause from every part of the hall. The 

 audience was composed chiefly of my friends and others who had been familiar with 

 the other group and who were able to decide as to the comparative interest of the two 

 parties; and it was proclaimed in every part of the room that they were altogether more 

 primitive in their appearance and modes, and decidedly a finer body of men. I had 

 accompanied them on to the platform, and when they had got seated and were lighting 

 their pipe I introduced them by stating that in the exhibition of this party of Indians 

 I felt satisfied that I was bringing before the eyes of the audience the most just and 

 complete illustration of the native looks and modes of the red men of the American 

 wilderness that had ever been seen on this side of the Atlantic, and that I should take 

 great pleasure in introducing them and their modes, as they so satisfactorily illustrated 

 and proved what I had been for several years laboring to show to English people, by 

 my numerous paintings and Indian manufactures which I had collected, as well as by 

 my notes of travel among these people, which I had recently published: 



That the Ioway was one of the remote tribes, yet adhering to all their native customs 

 and native looks; and that this party, composed as it was of the two principal men ot 

 the tribe and several of its most distinguished warriors, not only conveyed to the eyes 

 of people in this country the most accurate account of primitive modes, but was calcu- 

 lated to- excite the deepest interest, and to claim the respect of the community; that the 

 position of this tribe being upon the great plains between the Missouri and the Rocky 

 Mountains, one thousand miles farther west than the country from which the Ojibbe- 

 ways came, their modes and personal appearance were very different, having as yet 

 received no changes from the proximity of civilization. 



That I had visited this tribe several years before, during my travels in the Indian 

 countries, and that I had there formed my first acquaintance with the two chiefs who 

 were now here, and which acquaintance, from the hospitable manner in which they had 

 welcomed me in their humble wigwams, I now felt great pleasure in renewing. 

 ("Hear!" "Hear!" and applause. ) 



That these facts being known, with others which would be incidentally given, I felt 

 fully assured that they would meet with a kind reception in this country, and that the 

 audience were prepared for the introduction I was now to make of them and their 

 modes. * ( Great applause. ) 



I then pointed out and explained to the audience the characteristic differences between 

 the appearance and modes of this party and the Ojibbeways, whom they had seen, and 



* Names of the Indians. 



1. Mew-hew-she-kaw (the White Cloud), the first chief of the nation. 



2. Neu-nion-ya (the Walking Rain), war-chief. 



3. Se-non-ti-yah (the Blistered Feet), the medicine man (or doctor). 



4. Wash-ka-mon-ya (the Fast Dancer). 



5. Shon-ta-yi-ga (the Little Wolf). 



6. No-ho-mun-ya (One who Gives no Attention), or Roman Nose. 



7. Wa-ton-ye (the Foremost Man). 



8. Wa-ta-we-buck-a-na (Commanding General). 



Women. 



9. Ru-ton-ye-wee-ma (Strutting Pigeon), wife of White Cloud. 



10. Ru-ton-wee-me (Pigeon on the Wing). 



11. O-kee-wee-me (Female Bear that Walks on the Back of Another). 



12. Koon-za-ya-me (Female War Eagle Sailing). 



13. Ta-pa-ta-me (Wisdom), girl. 



14. Corsair (pappoose). 



