EditorialMandan religious ceremony - the body suspension ritual, part of the four-day O-Kee-Pa buffalo dance. Young men are suspended by the skin from scaffolds and hung with shields and bison skulls. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Custom...
EditorialMandan village with scare-crows, buffalo skulls, scalps, skin canoes, and people on roof tops, and a Mandan cemetery with bodies on high scaffolds and skull circle. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the Nort...
EditorialBurial traditions among the Native Americans: corpses left in trees by the Omaha A, burial teepees of the Sioux B, and burial scaffolds of the Mandan C. Pawnee men in canoes on the river at Belle Vue. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manner...
EditorialMandan village with scare-crows, buffalo skulls, scalps, skin canoes, and people on roof tops, and a Mandan cemetery with bodies on high scaffolds and skull circle. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the Nort...
EditorialBurial traditions among the Native Americans: corpses left in trees by the Omaha A, burial teepees of the Sioux B, and burial scaffolds of the Mandan C. Pawnee men in canoes on the river at Belle Vue. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manner...
EditorialMandan religious ceremony - the body suspension ritual, part of the four-day O-Kee-Pa buffalo dance. Young men are suspended by the skin from scaffolds and hung with shields and bison skulls. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Custom...
EditorialMandan village with scare-crows, buffalo skulls, scalps, skin canoes, and people on roof tops, and a Mandan cemetery with bodies on high scaffolds and skull circle. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the Nort...
EditorialBurial traditions among the Native Americans: corpses left in trees by the Omaha A, burial teepees of the Sioux B, and burial scaffolds of the Mandan C. Pawnee men in canoes on the river at Belle Vue. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manner...