THE OSAGE AND QUAPAW
The Osage
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1. Osage chief, painted by George Catlin, the 19th century artist famous for his paintings of North American Indians.
2. An artist's reconconstuction of an Osage village in southwest Missouri around 1820.
The Quapaw
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3. A Quapaw Man, circa A.D. 1700. Painting by Charles Banks Wilson, 1987.
4. The Quapaw hunting buffalo. Picture by a late 18th century artist.
5. The Quapaw are said to have lived in long bark covered houses something like this artist's reconstruction. This house type is not native to Arkansas but was common farther north in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys and throughout the northeastern United States. Their use of bark houses lends credence to Quapaw legends which state that they moved into Arkansas quite recently from the north, probably after the DeSoto invasion of 1541-1543.
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6. Catlinite pipe, Quapaw, 19th century. Catlinite, or pipestone, is an easily carved red stone ( an "indurated clay") that the Indians quarried along the upper Missouri River and traded throughout Eastern North America.
7. Horn spoons, probably buffalo horn, Quapaw, 19th century.
8. Beaded deerskin moccasins, Quapaw 19th century.
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9. Illustration from the top of the 1818 treaty by which the Quapaw, under pressure from the white settlers, gave up most of their land in Arkansas. In 1824, the Quapaw gave up the rest and were "removed" by the U.S. government to Oklahoma--the Indian territory.