Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village mb-artist Lindsay_Posner Mother and Children (La Promenade)

Mother and Children (La Promenade)

View from the River Thames with boats and crew on the water

Two elegant women in cloche hats and fur coats sit in the back

A pulley system allows large rolls of paper to be taken in to the newspaper office from a horse-drawn cart

Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village mb-artist Lindsay_Posner Mother and Children (La Promenade)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