e know not how the individual before us came to be designated by the name attached to the portrait. The true name is Aquaoda, which signifies "Creeping out of the Water." His usual residence is La Pointe, or Shagoimekoong, upon Lake Superior. He is...an expert fisherman and canoeman, in which capacity he is occasionally employed by the traders. He has never advanced any pretensions to chieftainship, except to be chief among the dancers, and in his profuse use of paints and ornaments.

History of the Indian Tribes of North America, Volair 1st Edition, 1978, Volume 1, Page 100.

arlier McKenney had called him "a young man of great cleverness and fond of various colors and a spirited warrior."

The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians by James D. Horan, Bramhall House, 1986, Page 226.