Drawing
Wilkins 11: The Deserted Pawnee Village
| Deserted Pawnee village in Nebraska. Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Trail). Wilkins writes about an encounter with a poor Pawnee family in his diary: "They were the most miserable family of Indians I ever saw. Sunk to the very lowest ebb of misery starvation and poverty. They had no arms except a bow and arrows, no horses and almost naked. The woman had on a buffalo robe, the man nothing but an old coffee sack, and the children a bit of buckskin round their middle. Their knives being all the property they had, this was the nearest link to the brute creation I had ever seen. I was informed by a man from Fort Childs that 55 perished from want last winter." |
| Image ID: | 1842 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 05 1849 |
| Creator Name: | Wilkins, James F., d. 1888 |
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| State: | Nebraska |
| Collection Name: | James F. Wilkins Overland Trail drawings, 1849 |
| Genre: | Drawing |
| Original Format Type: | drawings |
| Original Format Number: | PH 374.11 (5) |
| Original Dimensions: | 21 x 8.5 inches |
| Trails |
| Travel |
| Pawnee Indians |
| Dwellings |
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