LSE4328572 After four days without food or sleep, the candidates have their bodies incised in several places and a wooden dowel is recorded through, then they are hanged on the roof of the Wigwam and by a strong rotation movement, they turn on themselves until fainting, so these young warriors put their lives back to the guard of the Great Spirit, privilege invaluable among the Mandans Indians (or noumah ka kie: pheasants) on the left bank of Missouri. Engraving to illustrate an excursion among the Indian tribes of the basins of Colombia and Upper Missouri, by G. Catlin, in 1855, published in ??????le tour du monde?????? under the direction of D\'Edouard Charton, Hachette, Paris 1869.Selva Collection. by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: After four days without food or sleep, the candidates have their bodies incised in several places and a wooden dowel is recorded through, then they are hanged on the roof of the Wigwam and by a strong rotation movement, they turn on themselves until fainting, so these young warriors put their lives back to the guard of the Great Spirit, privilege invaluable among the Mandans Indians (or noumah ka kie: pheasants) on the left bank of Missouri. Engraving to illustrate an excursion among the Indian tribes of the basins of Colombia and Upper Missouri, by G. Catlin, in 1855, published in ??????le tour du monde?????? under the direction of D\'Edouard Charton, Hachette, Paris 1869.Selva Collection.); Photo by Leonard de Selva.