Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . I paintedat full length (plate 87), and his wife also, a young and very pretty woman(plate 88), wliose name is Hee-lah-dee (the pure fountain); her neckand arms were curiously tattooed, which is a very frequent mode of orna-menting the body amongst this and some other tribes, which is done bypricking into the skin, gunp
Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . I paintedat full length (plate 87), and his wife also, a young and very pretty woman(plate 88), wliose name is Hee-lah-dee (the pure fountain); her neckand arms were curiously tattooed, which is a very frequent mode of orna-menting the body amongst this and some other tribes, which is done bypricking into the skin, gunpowder and vermilion. The chief, who was wrapped in a buffalo robe, is a noble specimen (ifnative dignity and philosophy. I conversed much with him ; and from his\lignified manners, as well as from the soundness of his reasoning, 1 becamefully convinced that he deserved to be the sachem of a more numerous andprosperous tribe. He related to me with great coolness and frankness, thepoverty and distress of his nation ; and with the method of a philosopher,predicted the certain and rapid extinction of his tribe, which he had not thepower to avert. Poor, noble chief; who was equal to, and worthy of agreater empire ! He sat upon the deck of the steamer, overlooking the little.
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