L\i)i.\.\s OF rill-: I'LMSs 



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Painted by George Catlin 



AN OSAGE CHIEF AND TWO OF HIS WARRIORS 



and have a culture of that type, another division of the same people 

 hves in the northeastern corner of the Plains and has a different culture, 

 as may be observed by stepping inside the next hall. 



In this, and the adjoining hall will be found many paintings by 

 George Catlin part of a series of four hundred, illustrating the life and 

 ceremonies of the Indian of North and South America. They were 

 presented to the museum by Ogden Mills. 



[The Indians of Manhattan and vicinity are described in Guide 

 Leaflet No. 29.) 



SOUTHWEST PAVILION 



Indians of the Plains 



The collections of the Indians of the Plains will be found in the hall 

 adjoining. These Indians comprised the tribes living west of the Mis- 

 sissippi and east of the Rocky Mountains as far south as the Valley 

 of the Rio Grande and as far north as the Saskatchewan. They include 

 among others the Plains Cree, Dakota, Crow and Black- 

 foot shown on the left of the hall, and the Mandan, Paw- 

 nee, Kiowa and Cheyenne on the right. Most of these 

 tribes were dependent on the buffalo, so much so that they have some- 

 times been called the " Buffalo Indians." Buffalo flesh was their 



Indians of the 

 Plains 



