Identifier: reportsofexplora03unit_0 (find matches)
Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Subjects: Pacific railroads Discoveries in geography Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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appearance, according to the sketch,certainly indicates stupidity sufficient to render their name appropriate. But our guide, whohad been among them, and known their reputation for thieving, said that they were neitherstupid nor foolish, but, on the contrary, remarkably shrewd. Some allowance ought, perhaps,to be made for their situation ; being prisoners, and supposing themselves under sentence ofdeath, while their portraits were being taken. One is represented with naked limbs and barefeet, the picture of poverty. A torn shred of Navajo blanket and a fine bow with arrows areall that he possesses. His hair is rudely clipped in front. The other is dressed in raggedbuckskin, with a band around his head. The Yampais that we saw in the same region had the appearance of more intelligence than thosebefore us. We neglected to sketch them, expecting to see others ; but none came near us again. Plate 24 contains sketches of Paiutes or Chemehuevis Indians of Eio Colorado. They are a Plate 24.
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Chemehuevis Indians. (Pah-Utahs.) portion of the great Pah-Utah nation, and have a language entirely distinct from the tribes bywhich they are surrounded. In other respects, however, they assimilate to their neighbor*,with whom they live in amity. Agriculture is their main pursuit; hunting an occasionalpastime. Their bow is characteristic of the tribe to which they belong, being of bois-darc,elegantly curved, bound with sinews, and frequently ornamented at one end by the skin or rattle

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