George Catlin (1796 –1872) Four Macouchi Indians from
a small & friendly tribe of British Guiana. 1852. In 1823, William Hilhouse wrote that the Indian tribes within the limits of the Colony are as follows:—Caribisce, Accaway, Arawaak, Wan-ow, Macouchi, Indians of the Savan, which, though nominally Arawaaks. Hilhouse compiled his manuscript Book Of Reconnaissances And Indian Miscellanv while serving Britain as Quartermaster-General of Indians in the United Colony of Demerary & Essequibo of British Guiana - part of the British West Indies, on the northern coast of South America, now known as the independent nation of Guyana.
