Description
A group of Baxoje people who were part of George Catlin’s performances. They performed “a tableaux, including the “Game of the Mocasin” and “Wash-Kong-Hee or Battle Dance, illustrating (in their War Dress and War Paint, with Bow and Quiver, Shield and Lance) the Mode of an Indian Battle and Scalping, with other Dances and Amusements.” According to Catlin, See-non-ty-a in particular liked to visit the Hunterian Museum during the troupe’s time in Glasgow.
Bibliographic sources
Advertisement, Glasgow Herald, 31 January, 1845, 2. Location source, George Catlin, Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians, vol. 2 (London: author, 1852), 173.