Drawing showing Indians of several Nations - Illinois, Atakapa, and Foxes
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.2860 ZZ 6
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: De Batz, A.
topic: label: Topic
content: Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: De Batz, A.
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox
label: Culture
content: Illinois Indians
label: Culture
content: Atakapa
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / De Batz, A.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Published Bulletin 137, Plate 3, (Swanton) and S. M. C. 80:5 Plate 4 (Bushnell).
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content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Individuals in the picture marked by De Batz as follows: Chef (stg.), Reynard Sauvagesse Esclave (woman seated), Illinois, Dansseur, (next 2 no caption, Sauvagesse, Negro, Atakapas.

"During the year 1735 the French took many Illinois Indians to Lower Louisiana, probably to New Orleans, to assist in the war against the Chickasaw. From the interesting drawing made at that time it is evident that not only warriors but women and children made the long journey down the Mississippi. In the sketch the chief, on the extreme left, is shown with his right hand resting on the head of a Whooping Crane, Grus americana which may indicate that the bird had been domesicated. This would agree with a statement by Lawson, who, when referring to the Congaree of North Carolina, wrote: "they take storks and cranes before they can fly and breed them as tame and familiar as dung-hill fowls." "The Fox woman was evidently a captive taken by the Illinois in their recent war with that tribe. "The Atakapa is represented holding a calumet in his right hand and a small pipe in the left, with a quiver filled with arrows on his back, but no bow. "The sketch is probably intended to represent the bank of the Mississippi, and at the bottom appears the words 'Balbahachas. Missysipy ou fleuve St Louis." DuPratz described the Mississippi and mentioned the various names by which it was then known, and continued: 'Other Indians, especially those lower down the river, call it Balbancha; and at last the French have given it the name of St Louis.'" Bushnell, S. M. C. 80:5, 1927. Plate 4.