WESH-CUBB, A CHIPPEWAY CHIEF No 45 RICE, RUTTER & CO, Publishers This image from Vol. I of the 1872 Octavo edition will also include the biography pages from the text. The biographical account accompanying this portrait indicates his name translates to “The Sweet, ” is a chief of Red Lake, north of the sources of the Mississippi. An interesting note in his biography is the description of a son who, fancied himself a woman, and assumed the female dress and employments. It went on to discuss the young man but explained he ultimately joined at least seven war parties and was eventually killed by the enemy. This hand colored plate features WESH-CUBB as a bare-chested man wrapped in a light blanket with a simple black scarf and gold or bronze necklace. His hair is wrapped in a red scarf with feather adornments. Hand colored lithograph color plates were by Henry Inman based on paintings by Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis, and Peter Rindisbacher. Most of the original paintings were destroyed in a fire and the Henry Inman lithographs preserve the images. This image is from the 1872 octavo edition of: HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS EMBELLISHED WITH One Hundred Portraits from the Indian Gallery IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON BY THOMAS L. McKENNEY, Late of the Indian Department, Washington, In Two Volumes VOL. I PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY D. 1872 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by RICE, RUTTER & CO. In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. CAXTON PRESS OF SHERMAN & CO.