Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village Size:M: 60 x 40cm 22nd October 1864

22nd October 1864

'Innocence

' An ouroboros [a snake holding its own tail in its mouth] can be seen to the right of the picture

Electrometer designed and made by John Cuthbertson (bap

Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village Size:M: 60 x 40cm 22nd October 1864Religious 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