31 MAY 1845, Page 19

A collection of eighty-four life-size portraits of North American In-

dians, the representatives of eighteen different tribes, is exhibited at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street. These pictures are all taken from the life, by Mr. Inman, an American painter; and they are the originals from which the prints were copied for a large work just completed of portraits and biographies of Indian chiefs. The variety of physiogno- mies and costumes, and the characteristic traits of a race of savages fast becoming extinct, render this exhibition curious and interesting. The in- fluence of European blood in improving the race is strikingly apparent in the countenances of the half-breeds; whose open, elevated, and intelligent looks, contrast with the contracted, prone, and heavy aspect of the natives of Indian parentage.