Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 2): With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existingCatlin, George
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Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 2): With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing
Catlin, George
Indians of North America
Upper Missouri Indians—General character, p. 23.—Buffaloes—Description
of, p. 24, pls. 7, 8.—Modes of killing them—Buffalo-hunt, p.
25.—Chardon’s Leap, p. 26, pl. 9.—Wounded bull, p. 26, pl.
10.—Extraordinary feat of Mr. M‘Kenzie, p. 27.—Return from the chase,
p. 28.
LETTER—+No. 5, Mouth of Yellow Stone+.
Author’s painting-room, and characters in it, p. 29.—Blackfoot
chief, p. 29, pl. 11.—Other Blackfoot chiefs, and their costumes,
p. 30.—Blackfoot woman and child, p. 30, pls. 12, 13;—Scalps,
and objects for which taken—red pipes, and pipe-stone quarry, p.
31.—Blackfoot bows, shields, arrows and lances, p. 32, 33, pl.
18.—Several distinguished Blackfeet, p. 34, pls. 14, 15, 16, 17.
LETTER—+No. 6, Mouth of Yellow Stone+.
Medicines or mysteries—medicine-bag—origin of the word medicine,
p. 35.—Mode of forming the medicine-bag, p. 36.—Value of the
medicine-bag to the Indian, and materials for their construction,
p. 37, pl. 18.—Blackfoot doctor or medicine-man—his mode of curing
the sick, p. 39, pl. 19.—Different offices and importance of
medicine-men, p. 41.
LETTER—+No. 7, Mouth of Yellow Stone+.
Crews and Blackfeet—General character and appearance, p. 42.—Killing
and drying meat, p. 43, pl. 22.—Crow lodge or wigwam, p. 43, pl.
20.—Striking their tents and encampment moving, p. 44, pl. 21.—Mode
of dressing and smoking skins, p. 45.—Crows—Beauty of their
dresses—Horse-stealing or capturing—Reasons why they are called
rogues and robbers of the first order, &c. p. 46.
LETTER—+No. 8, Mouth of Yellow Stone+.
Further remarks on the Crows—Extraordinary length of hair, p.
49.—Peculiarities of the Crow head, and several portraits, p. 50,
pls. 24, 25, 26, 27.—Crow and Blackfeet women—Their modes of dressing
and painting, p. 51.—Differences between the Crow and Blackfoot
languages, p. 51.—Different hands—Different languages, and numbers
of the Blackfeet, p. 52.—Knisteneaux—Assinneboins, and Ojibbeways,
p. 53.—Assinneboins a part of the Sioux—Their mode of boiling meat,
p. 54.—Pipe-dance, p. 55, pl. 52.—Wi-jun-jon (a chief) and wife,
pls. 28, 29.—His visit to Washington, p. 56.—Dresses of women
and children of the Assinneboins, p. 57, pl. 34.—Knisteneaux (or
Crees)—character and numbers, and several portraits, p. 57, pls. 30,
31.—Ojibbeways—Chief and wife, p. 58, pls. 35, 36.
LETTER—+No. 9, Mouth of Yellow Stone+.
Contemplations of the Great Far West and its customs, p. 59.—Old
acquaintance, p. 60.—March and effects of civilization, p. 60.—The
“Far West”—The Author in search of it, p. 62.—Meeting with
“Ba’tiste,” a free trapper, p. 63, 64.
LETTER—+No. 10, Mandan Village, Upper Missouri+.
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