146. H'co-a-h'co-a-h'cotes-min, No Horns on his Head; a brave, a very handsome man, in a beautiful dress.
147. ( ) Woman and Child; showing the manner in which the heads of the children are flattened.
CHIN-OOK.
On the lower parts of the Columbia, near the Pacific Ocean.
148. Hee-doh'ge-ats, ——; a young man, eighteen years of age.
BLACK FEET.
A very warlike and hostile tribe of 50,000, including the Peagans Cotonnés and Gros-ventres de Prairies, occupying the head-waters of the Missouri, extending a great way into the British territory on the north, and into the Rocky Mountains on the west. Rather low in stature, broad chested, square shouldered, richly clad, and well armed, living in skin lodges. 12,000 of them destroyed by smallpox within the year 1838!
149. Stu-mick-o-súcks, the Buffalo’s Black Fat; Chief of the tribe, in a splendid costume, richly garnished with porcupine-quills, and fringed with scalp-locks.