Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians Part 17

598. t.i.t-TOWY-OOT-SE. _Beginning to go to War._ SKEEDEE.

Alias Johnson Wright. A civilized Indian.

599. KE-WUK-O-CAR-WAR-RY. _Fox on the War-path._ SKEEDEE.

Alias Fat George. a.s.sistant carpenter at the agency.

600. CAW-CAW-KE-REEK. _Crow Eyes._ PETAHOWERAT.

601. KEE-WEEK-O-WAR-UXTY. _Medicine Bull._ SKEEDEE.

602. TEC-TA-SHA-COD-DIC. _One who strikes the Chiefs first._ KIT-KA-HOCT.

603. LE-TA-CUTS-A-WAR-UXTY. _Medicine Eagle._ SKEEDEE.

604. TA-CAW-DEEX-TAW-SEE-UX. _Driving a Herd._ SKEEDEE.

605. US-CAW-DA-WAR-UXTY. _Medicine Antelope._ KIT-KA-HOCT.

606. TER-RA-HA-TU-RIHA. _Good Buffalo._ PETAHOWERAT.

608. SIT-TE-ROW-E-HOO-RA-REEK. _Seen by All._ SKEEDEE.

609. LOO-KIT-TOWY-HIS-SA. _On a Fine Horse._ SKEEDEE.

610. PAW-HOO-CUT-TAW-WAH. _Knee-mark on the Ground on Stooping to Drink._ SKEEDEE.

611. SQUAW AND PAPPOOSE.

523, 567-8. THE VILLAGE OF THE p.a.w.nEES.

Situated on the Loupe Fork of the Platte River, about 100 miles west of Omaha. It was divided into two parts, the Skeedees occupying one part by themselves, and the other three bands jointly in the other.

The entire village accommodated about 2,500 people. Each lodge was capable of holding several families; they were formed by erecting several stout posts in a circle, forked at the top, into which cross beams were laid, and against these long poles were inclined from the outside toward the centre; all was then covered with brush, and finally with earth, leaving a hole at the apex for the escape of smoke, and a long tunnel-like entrance at the base. This village is now (1876) entirely destroyed, and the Indians removed to the Indian Territory.

524, 569. A MUD LODGE.

In the p.a.w.nee village, showing the tunnel-like entrance. (See No.

523.)

537-9. SCHOOL BUILDING on the p.a.w.nee reserve, on the Loupe Fork, Nebraska.

573-4. GROUPS OF THE HEAD MEN of the tribe.

525-7. GROUPS OF INDIAN CHILDREN (attending the boarding-school on the reservation).

The first shows the younger children of the primary cla.s.ses, and the two latter numbers the older and more advanced scholars.

570-2. GROUPS OF CHILDREN in their every-day attire, which consists princ.i.p.ally of the covering with which nature first clothed them.

536. A GROUP OF YOUNG SQUAWS in the village.

541-2. AGENCY BUILDINGS.

540. NATIVE PAINTING ON A BUFFALO-SKIN.

A biography, or narration of the princ.i.p.al events in the life of a prominent chief, by the means of picture-writing.

547-9; 561-6; 587-90; 612. MISCELLANEOUS PORTRAITS OF p.a.w.nEES without information as to name or history.

4. WACOS.

742. LONG SOLDIER. (Front.)

743. LONG SOLDIER. (Profile.)

5. WICHITAS.

744. a.s.sADAWA. (Front.)

745. a.s.sADAWA. (Profile.)

746. ESQUITZCHEW. (Front.)

747. ESQUITZCHEW. (Profile.)

748. BLACK HORSE.

165, 167. BUFFALO GOAD. (Front.)

166, 168. BUFFALO GOAD. (Profile.)

Was one of the great delegation of chiefs from the Indian Territory in 1872, among whom were Little Raven, Little Robe, Bird Chief, &c.

He impressed all as being a man of more than usual ability and dignity.

V. SHOSHONES.

1. BANNACKS.

The Bannacks, Bonnacks, or Pannaques, a small, scattered tribe of Shoshone stock, roaming over the desert plains of Idaho and portions of the surrounding Territories, were first found about the Blue Mountains.

In 1833 Bonneville met them on the Snake River, near the mouth of the Portneuf, "numbering about 120 lodges. They are brave and cunning warriors, and deadly foes of the Blackfeet, whom they easily overcome in battle when their forces are equal. They are not vengeful and enterprising in warfare, however, seldom sending parties to attack the Blackfeet towns, but contenting themselves with defending their own territories and houses." They frequent the headwaters of the Snake and Yellowstone countries to hunt and fish.

They have generally enjoyed a reputation for friendliness, although, in 1866, all but the Eastern Bannacks under Tahgee engaged in hostilities against the whites.