BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 77 PLATE 35 [Illustration: _a._ Oto dugout canoe, from Kurz's Sketchbook, May 15, 1851] [Illustration: _b._ Bull-boat and paddle, obtained from the Hidatsa. Marked "Fort Buford, Dak. Ter. Grosventres Tribe. Drs. Gray and Matthews." (U.S.N.M. 9785)] BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 77 PLATE 36 [Illustration: _a._ Structure showing arbor over entrance] [Illustration: _b._ Long structure with entrance on one side WINNEBAGO HABITATIONS, ABOUT 1870] BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 77 PLATE 37 [Illustration: WINNEBAGO STRUCTURES] It is quite evident that after leaving the permanent earth-lodge village of the Oto the Long party just a century ago passed one of the temporary camps of the same people. This, fortunately, was sketched by the artist of the expedition and reproduced in the narrative of the journey, and is now shown in plate 33. To quote from the narrative: "For the elucidation of what we have said respecting the form and arrangement of the skin, or travelling lodges of the Indians, we subjoin an engraving, representing an encampment of Oto Indians, which Mr. Seymour sketched near the Platte river. In this plate, the group of Indians on the left is intended to represent a party of Konza Indians approaching to perform the calumet dance in the Oto village. It may be proper to remark, that this party when still distant from the Otoes, had sent forward a messenger, with the offer of a prize to the first Oto that should meet them. This circumstance was productive of much bustle and activity among the warriors and young men, who eagerly mounted their horses, and exerted their utmost speed." (James. (1), II, pp. 188-189.) Various ethnological specimens collected among the Oto a generation or more ago are in the collections of the National Museum. One quite rare object, a "pemmican maul," formed of a single piece of wood, is figured in plate 34, _a_. An original sketch by Kurz in May, 1851, representing a group of Oto with a dugout canoe, is reproduced in plate 35, _a_. MISSOURI.