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Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied, Manuscript Journal of Prince Maximilian’s Travels in North America, parts 15–29, vol. 3, 1833–34, p. 57.
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Mató-Tópe visited us with his wife, who wore a very beautifully painted buffalo robe. Mató-Tópe’s heroic feats were portrayed on it; he killed five Indian chiefs. . . . Mató-Tópe went home with his wife. He [wore his] buffalo robe with the hair toward the outside and his little boy on his back. His wife draped the robe around him and tied it firmly to his body. She placed blue cloth, a blanket, and tobacco, which she had bought, around herself and put on her robe. Then she hung her husband’s bow and arrows [over her shoulders], and they left. This man has a very handsome, strong child, whom he loves very much.
