North American Indians Volume Ii

by GEORGE CATLIN

• ISBN13: 9781582182742
• ISBN10: 1582182744
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans from the Far West he became eager to preserve the vanishing tribes and customs of the Native Americans through his art.

Table of Contents

The Author painting a Chief in an Indian Village
Map of Indian Localities embraced within the Author's Travels
	p. 1
Wyoming, birth-place of the Author
His former Profession
First cause of his Travels to the Indian Country
Delegation of Indians in Philadelphia
First start to the Far West, in 1832
Design of forming a National Gallery
Numbers of Tribes visited, and number of Paintings and other things collected
Probable extinction of the Indians
Former and present numbers of
The proper mode of approaching them, and estimating their character
Certificates of Government Officers, Indian Agents, and others, as to the fidelity of the Portraits and other Paintings
	p. 15
Mouth of Yellow Stone
Distance from St Louis
Difficulties of the Missouri
Politeness of Mr Chouteau and Major Sanford
Fur Company's Fort
Indian Epicures
New and true School for the Arts
Beautiful Models
Mouth of Yellow Stone	p. 19
Character of Missouri River
Beautiful prairie shores
Picturesque clay bluffs
First appearance of a steamer at the Yellow Stone, and curious conjectures of the Indians about it
Fur Company's Establishment at the mouth of the Yellow Stone
M'Kenzie
His table and politeness
Indian tribes in this vicinity
Mouth of Yellow Stone	p. 26
Upper Missouri Indians
General character
Buffaloes
Description of
Modes of killing them
Buffalo-hunt
Chardon's Leap
Wounded bull
Extraordinary feat of Mr M'Kenzie
Return from the chase
Mouth of Yellow Stone	p. 33
Author's painting-room, and characters in it
Blackfoot chief
Other Blackfoot chiefs, and their costumes
Blackfoot woman and child
Scalps, and objects for which taken
Red pipes, and pipe-stone quarry
Blackfoot bows, shields, arrows, and lances
Several distinguished Blackfeet
Mouth of Yellow Stone	p. 40
Medicines or mysteries
Medicine-bag
Origin of the word medicine
Mode of forming the medicine-bag
Value of the medicine-bag to the Indian, and materials for their construction
Blackfoot doctor or medicine-man
His mode of curing the sick
Different offices and importance of medicine-men
Mouth of Yellow Stone	p. 48
Crows and Blackfeet
General character and appearance
Killing and drying meat
Crow lodge or wigwam
Striking their tents and encampment moving
Mode of dressing and smoking skins
Crows
Beauty of their dresses
Horse-stealing or capturing
Reasons why they are called rogues and robbers of the first order, etc
Mouth of Yellow Stone	p. 56
Further remarks on the Crows
Extraordinary length of hair
Peculiarities of the Crow head, and several portraits
Crow and Blackfeet women
Their modes of dressing and painting
Differences between the Crow and Blackfoot languages
Different bands
Different languages, and numbers of the Blackfeet
Knisteneaux
Assinneboins, and Ojibbeways
Assinneboins a part of the Sioux
Their mode of boiling meat
Pipe-dance
Wi-jun-jon (a chief) and wife
His visit to Washington
Dresses of women and children of the Assinneboins
Knisteneaux (or Crees)
Character and numbers, and several portraits
Ojibbeways
Chief and wife
Mouth of Yellow Stone	p. 67
Contemplations of the Great Far West and its customs
Old acquaintance
March and effects of civilisation
The "Far West"
The Author in search of it
Meeting with "Ba'tiste," a free trapper
Mandan Village, Upper Missouri	p. 75
A strange place
Voyage from Mouth of Yellow Stone down the river to Mandans
Commencement
Leave M'Kenzie's Fort
Assinneboins encamped on the river
Wi-jun-jon lecturing on the customs of white people
Mountain-sheep
War-eagles
Grizzly bears
Clay bluffs, "brick-kilns," volcanic remains
Red pumice stone
A wild stroll
Mountaineer's sleep
Grizzly bear and cubs
Courageous attack
Canoe robbed
Eating our meals on a pile of drift-wood
Encamping in the night
Voluptuous scene of wild flowers, buffalo bush and berries
Adventure after an elk
War-party discovered
Magnificent scenery in the "Grand Detour"
Stupendous clay bluffs
Table land
Antelope shooting
"Grand Dome"
Prairie dogs
Village
Fruitless endeavours to shoot them
Pictured bluff and the Three Domes
Arrival at the Mandan village
Mandan Village	p. 91
Location
Village
Former locations, fortification of their village
Description of village and mode of constructing their wigwams
Description of interior
Beds
Weapons
Family groups
Indian garrulity
Jokes
Fire-side fun and story-telling
Causes of Indian taciturnity in civilised society
Mandan Village	p. 99
Bird's-eye view of the village
The "big canoe"
Medicine-lodge
A strange medley
Mode of depositing the dead on scaffolds
Respect to the dead
Visiting the dead
Feeding the dead
Converse with the dead
Bones of the dead
Mandan Village	p. 104
The wolf-chief
Head-chief of the tribe
Several portraits
Personal appearance
Peculiarities
Complexion
"Cheveux gris"
Hair of the men
Hair of the women
Bathing and swimming
Mode of swimming
Sudatories or vapour baths
Mandan Village	p. 113
Costumes of the Mandans
High value set upon them
Two horses for a head-dress
Made of war-eagle's quills and ermine
Head-dresses with horns
A Jewish custom
Mandan Village	p. 119
Astonishment of the Mandans at the operation of the Author's brush
The Author installed medicine or medicine-man
Crowds around the Author
Curiosity to see and to touch him
Superstitious fears for those who were painted
Objections raised to being painted
The Author's operations opposed by a Mandan doctor, or Medicine-man, and how brought over
Mandan Village	p. 127
An Indian beau or dandy
A fruitless endeavour to paint one
Mah-to-toh-pa (the four bears), second chief of the tribe
The Author feasted in his wigwam
Viands of the feast
Pemican and marrowfat
Mandan pottery
Robe presented
Mandan Village	p. 133
Polygamy
Reasons and excuses for it
Marriages, how contracted
Wives bought and sold
Paternal and filial affection
Virtue and modesty of women
Early marriages
Slavish lives and occupations of the Indian women
Pomme blanche
Dried meat
Caches
Modes of cooking, and times of eating
Attitudes in eating
Separation of males and females in eating
The Indians moderate eaters
Some exceptions
Curing meat in the sun, without smoke or salt, The wild Indians eat no salt
Mandan Village	p. 142
Indian dancing
"Buffalo dance"
Discovery of buffaloes
Preparations for the chase
Start
A decoy
A retreat
Death and scalping
Mandan Village	p. 148
Sham fight and sham scalp dance of the Mandan boys
Game of Tchungkee
Feasting
Fasting and sacrificing
White buffalo robe
Its value
Rain makers and rain stoppers
Rain making
"The thunder boat"
The big double medicine
Mandan Village	p. 159
Mandan archery
"Game of the arrow"
Wild horses
Horse-racing
Foot war-party in council
Mandan Village, Upper Missouri	p. 163
Mah-to-toh-pa (the four bears)
His costume and his portrait
The robe of Mah-to-toh-pa, with all the battles of his life painted on it
Mandan Village	p. 175
Mandan religious ceremonies
Mandan religious creed
Three objects of the ceremony
Place of holding the ceremony
Big canoe
Season of commencing, and manner
Opening the medicine lodge
Sacrifices to the water
Fasting scene for four days and nights
Bel-lohck-nah-pick (the bull dance)
Pohk-hong (the cutting or torturing scene)
Eh-ke-nah-ka-nah-pick (the last race)
Extraordinary instances of cruelty in self-torture
Sacrificing to the water
Certificates of the Mandan ceremonies
Inferences drawn from these horrible cruelties, with traditions
Tradition of O-kee-hee-de (the Evil Spirit)
Mandans can be civilised
Minataree Village	p. 209
Location and numbers
Origin
Principal village
Vapour baths
Old chief, Black Moccasin
Two portraits, man and woman
Green corn dance
Minataree Village	p. 215
Crows, in the Minataree village
Crow chief on horseback, in full dress
Peculiarities of the Crows
Long hair
Semi-lunar faces
Rats in the Minataree village
Crossing Knife River in "bull boat"
Swimming of Minataree girls
Horse-racing
A banter
Riding a "naked horse"
Grand buffalo surround
Cutting up and carrying in meat
Little Mandan Village, Upper Missouri	p. 228
An Indian offering himself for a pillow
Portraits of Riccarees
Riccaree village
Origin of the Mandans
Welsh colony
Expedition of Madoc
Mouth of Teton River	p. 233
Sioux or (Dah-co-ta)
Fort Pierre
Mississippi and Missouri Sioux
Hawan-je-tah (chief) Puncahs, Shoo-de-ga-cha (chief) and wife
Four wives taken at once
Portrait of one of the wives
Early marriages
Causes of
Mouth of Teton River	p. 243
Custom of exposing the aged
A tedious march on foot
Level prairies
"Out of sight of land"
Mirage
Looming of the prairies
Turning the toes in
Bijou hills
Salt meadows
Arrive at Fort Pierre
Great assemblage of Sioux
Paint the portrait of the chief
Superstitious objections
Opposed by the doctors
Difficulty settled
Death of Ha-wan-je-tah (the chief)
Mode of
Portraits of other Sioux chiefs
Wampum
Beautiful Sioux women
Daughter of Black Rock
Chardon, his Indian wife
Mouth of Teton River	p. 254
Difficulty of painting Indian women
Indian vanity
Watching their portraits
Arrival of the first steamer amongst the Sioux
Dog-feast
Mouth of Teton River	p. 261
Voluntary torture, "looking at the sun"
Religious ceremony
Smoking "k'nick-k'neck"
Pipes
Calumets or pipes of peace
Tomahawks and scalping knives
Dance of the chiefs
Scalps
Mode of taking, and object
Modes of carrying and using the scalps
Mouth of Teton River	p. 271
Indian weapons and instruments of music
Quiver and shield
Smoking the shield
Tobacco pouches
Drums
Rattles
Whistles
Lutes
Bear dance
Beggars' dance
Scalp dance
Mouth of Teton River	p. 278
Bisons (or buffaloes) description of
Habits of
Bulls' fighting
Buffalo wallows
Fairy circles
Running the buffaloes, and throwing the arrow
Buffalo chase
Use of the lasso
Hunting under mask of white wolf skins
Horses destroyed in buffalo hunting
Buffalo calf
Mode of catching and bringing in
Immense and wanton destruction of buffaloes
1400 killed
White wolves attacking buffaloes
Contemplations on the probable extinction of buffaloes and Indians
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