Note 1392 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

The original paintings for the plates are now in the Peabody Museum (Report, xvi. 189). M’Kenney also published his Memoirs, official and personal, with sketches of travel among the northern and southern Indians (N. Y., 1846), in two volumes. He had been in 1816 the agent of the United States in dealing with the Indians, and in 1824 had been put at the head of the Indian bureau.