INDIANS OF THE PLAINS 



29 



Painted by George Catlin 



AN OSAGE CHIEF AND TWO OF HIS WARRIORS 



in the northern 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 from 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. (See map on south wall.) 

 They include among others the Plains-Cree, Dakota, Crow 

 and Blackfoot shown on the left of the hall, and the Mandan, 

 Pawnee, 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 chief 



Indians of the 

 Plains 



