.

Such sketches, rude and imperfect as they are, delineate the predominant character of the savage nations.
If they are peaceable and inoffensive, the drawings usually consist of local scenery and their favorite diversions.

If the band are rude and ferocious, we observe tomahawks, scalping-knives, bows and arrows, and all the engines of destruction .-- A Mandan bow, and quiver of arrows; also some Ricara tobacco-seed, and an ear of Mandan corn: to these were added a box of plants, another of insects, and three cases containing a burrowing squirrel, a prairie hen, and four magpies, all alive.".

.

.
The articles reached Mr.Jefferson safely and were long on view at his Virginia residence, Monticello.