Omaha village, from an original negative made by Jackson in 1871 and now in the Bureau of American Ethnology. According to La Flesche, "The location of the Omaha village can best be described as in the southwest quarter of Section 30, Township 25, Range 10, in the extreme eastern border of Thurston County, Nebraska. The land was allotted in 1883 to Pe-de-ga-hi, one of the Omaha chiefs. It is about three-quarters of a mile west of the historic site known as Blackbird Hill, on which the great medicine man Blackbird was buried."
Plate 28
Both a and b represent pages in Kurz's sketchbook. (See note, pl. 23, b.)
Plate 29
Reproduced from the engraving of Bodmer's painting, as illustrated by Maximilian. (See note, pl. 15.)
Plate 30
a. Reproduction of the illustration in De Smet's work, where the picture is signed Geo. Lehman, del.
b. Reproduced from the engraving after a drawing by Samuel Seymour.
In the instructions issued to members of the expedition, dated "Pittsburgh, March 31, 1819," Major Long stated: "Mr. Seymour, as painter for the expedition, will furnish sketches of landscapes, whenever we meet with any distinguished for their beauty and grandeur. He will also paint miniature likenesses, or portraits if required, of distinguished Indians, and exhibit groups of savages engaged in celebrating their festivals or sitting in council, and in general illustrate any subject, that may be deemed appropriate in his art."