The preceding quotation from Maximilian is suggestive of an entry in the journal of the Swiss artist Friedrich Kurz, made some years later. Kurz wrote while at Fort Union: "October 13, 1851. As we were weighing and hanging up dried meat, a lot of Assiniboins came to the fort with squaws and many horse and dog travois. As a whole these trading parties do not show much of interest, but there are always many details to be picked up, of great value to a painter." (Bushnell, (3), p. 15.) Kurz remained at Fort Union until April 19, 1852, when he descended the Missouri to St. Louis, and thence returned to his native city of Bern. While still at Fort Union on March 21, 1852, he made the sketch now reproduced in plate 25, _b_, which bears the legend, "Horse camp of the Assiniboins." It shows a group of skin-covered lodges in the midst of a grove of cottonwoods, and evidently the Missouri is in the distance on the right. At that time (1851-52), according to Kurz, the Assiniboin then living in the vicinity of Fort Union numbered 420 lodges, with 1,050 men, but "from 2-3000 Assiniboins live far above, near lake Winnibeg." BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 77 PLATE 24 [Illustration: _a._ Near Fort Laramie, 1868] [Illustration: _b._ Near Fort Laramie, 1868] [Illustration: _c._ "A skin lodge of an Assiniboin chief." Karl Bodmer] BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 77 PLATE 25 [Illustration: _a._ Assiniboin lodges "formed entirely of pine branches." Paul Kane, 1848] [Illustration: _b._ "Horse camp of the Assiniboins, March 21, 1852." Friedrich Kurz] BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 77 PLATE 26 [Illustration: _a._ Tipi of Gi-he-ga, an Omaha chief. Photograph by W. H. Jackson, 1871] [Illustration: _b._ Page of Kurz's Sketchbook] BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 77 PLATE 27 [Illustration: "THE VILLAGE OF THE OMAHAS" Photograph by W. H. Jackson, 1871] The Assiniboin living in the far northwest had another and simpler form of temporary structure, as mentioned by Kane. He wrote, when arriving at Rocky Mountain Fort, a post of the Hudson's Bay Company, April 21, 1848: "This fort is beautifully situated on the banks of the Saskatchewan, in a small prairie, backed by the Rocky Mountains in the distance. In the vicinity was a camp of Assiniboine lodges, formed entirely of pine branches." (Kane, (1), p. 408.) The painting made by him showing the fort and lodges is reproduced in plate 25, _a_. DHEGIHA GROUP.