Sujet
Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village.Artist: Myers and Co
Légende
Religious ceremony in a Mandan village, North America, 1841. Young men run in a circle dragging elk skulls behind them. The Mandan are a Native American tribe that historically lived on the banks of the Missouri and its tributaries in what is now North and South Dakota. Unlike the migrant Plains Indians ther lived in permanent villages of circular earth lodges. The Mandan were almost wiped out by a smallpox epidemic in 1837-1838. A print from 'North American Indians', Wiley and Putnam, 1841.
The Print Collector collection
Date
1841
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19C51_351
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
53,8Mo (4,1Mo) / 44,0cm x 30,6cm / 5196 x 3620 (300dpi)