But they also extracted a rich orange colour from the Poccon root. A fine vegetable blue is also easily procured, and this was transformed to green by means of a yellow liquor of the smooth hickory bark. Black, which is much in demand, was obtained both from the sumack and from the bark of the white walnut. All the colours thus far named are vegetable dyes, but mineral colours are in general use for painting, and especially for personal decoration, which is no doubt the primary idea associated in the Indian mind with the verb “to paint.” The Lenapes, Dr. Brinton remarks, “obtained red, white, and blue clays, which were in such extensive demand that the vicinity of those streams in Newcastle County, Delaware, which are now called White Clay Creek and Red Clay Creek, are widely known to the natives as _Walamink_, ‘the place of paint.’”[108] The Shawnees applied the name _Alamonee-sepee_, “Paint Creek,” to the stream which falls into the Scioto close to Chilicothe. The word _walamen_, signifying “to paint,” is the Shawnee _alamon_, and the Abnaki _wramann_, the _r_ being substituted for the _l_. Roger Williams, describing the New England Indians, speaks of “_wunnam_, their red painting, which they most delight in,—both the bark of the pine, as also a red earth.” The word is derived from Narr. _wunne_, Del. _wulit_, Chip. _gwanatseh_: “beautiful, handsome, good, pretty,” etc. “The Indian who had bedaubed his skin with red ochreous clay, was esteemed in full dress, and delightful to look upon. Hence the term _wulit_, ‘fine, pretty,’ came to be applied to the paint itself.”[109]