EditorialSha-ko-ka, the Mint, a Mandan Girl. The Natural History of Man; comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies of the different tribes of the human family. London, 1845. Source: 10007.d.23 plate 33 opposite page 401. L...
EditorialMi-meek-ee-sunk-te-ka. The Mink. A Mandan Girl. The Natural History of Man; comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies of the different tribes of the human family. London, 1845. Source: 10007.d.23 plate 34 opposite...
EditorialMato-Tope, Mandan chief, in feather headdress and war paint, holding a tomahawk. After Karl Bodmer's portraits for Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Neuwied. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars from Charles Hamilton Smith's Natural History of t...
EditorialMandan medicine man Mah-to-he-hah, Old Bear, painted with various colours, bear grease and charcoal, holding feathered medicine pipes and wearing fox tails on his heels. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the...
EditorialMandan war party resting on buffalo hides and smoking tobacco pipes around a fire. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.
EditorialMandan medicine man Wak-a-dah-ha-hee, White Buffalo's Hair, performing a rain dance, and Mandan warriors playing Tchung-kee, a game of skill played with a ring and sticks. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of t...
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...
EditorialChippewa bark canoe a, Sioux dug-out canoe b, Mandan skin canoe c, Sioux snow shoes d, and Chippewa snow shoes e. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.
EditorialMandan religious ceremony. The keeper of the ceremonies, O-kee-pah ka-se-kah, praying by the fire in a lodge with young men of the village. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, Londo...
EditorialMandan second chief Mah-to-toh-pa, Four Bears, in sheepskin shirt edged with scalps and porcupine quills, deerskin leggings, buckskin mocassins, war-eagle feather headdress and bear-claw necklace. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, C...
EditorialMandan warriors and beauties: Mah-tahp-ta-ha, He Who Rushes through the Middle 50, and Seehk-hee-da, Mouse-Coloured Feather 51; Mi-neek-e-sunk-te-ca, the Mink 53, and little grey haired Sha-ko-ka, Mint 52. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's M...
EditorialMandan men and boys dancing a sham fight and sham scalp-dance. Boys with small bows, reed arrows and wooden knives learning hunting and fighting techniques. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North Americ...
EditorialDecorated robe of Mandan second chief Mah-to-toh-pa, Four Bears. It depicts 12 battle scenes against the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arikaree. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.
EditorialBattle scenes of the decorated robe of Mandan second chief Mah-to-toh-pa, Four Bears. Killing a Sioux warrior with three kills, lancing a Cheyenne, shooting a Cheyenne, and taking the scalp of a Cheyenne chief. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catli...
EditorialMandan robe depicting the sun and bison, rifles, warriors. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.
EditorialMandan religious ceremony - the last race or Eh-ke-na-ka-nah-pick, part of the four-day O-Kee-Pa buffalo dance. Exhausted young men run or are dragged in an attempt to shake off the splints and buffalo skulls skewered in their skin. Handcoloured lithog...
EditorialBattle scenes of the decorated robe of Mandan second chief Mah-to-toh-pa, Four Bears. Victory over a Cheyenne chief 8, standing alone against a party of Assiniboin 9, scalping two Ojibwe women 10, and shooting an Assiniboin warrior 11. Handcoloured lit...
EditorialMandan warrior San-ja-ka-ko-kah, Deceiving Wolf, and his family, showing the distinctive long hair dyed red and falling almost to the knees. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, Lond...
EditorialBattle scenes of the decorated robe of Mandan second chief Mah-to-toh-pa, Four Bears. Mah-to-toh-pa fighting a party of Sioux singlehanded 5, his brother killed by the Arikara 6, revenge killing of an Arikara 7, and his courage against the Sioux 12. Ha...
EditorialMandan warriors in an archery contest called the Game of the Arrow. The warrior who shoots most arrows in the air wins the shields and robes of the others. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North America...
EditorialThe second chief of the Mandan, Mah-to-toh-pa, Four Bears, in his teepee with George Catlin enjoying buffalo ribs, turnip pudding and buffalo berries. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Ind...
EditorialMandan religious ceremony - the bull or buffalo dance, Bel-lohck nah-pick or O-Kee-Pa. Eight young men in buffalo skins dance with four men painted red and black, while the villagers watch from the lodge roofs. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catli...
EditorialHa-na-tah-nu-mauh, Wolf Chief, head chief of the Mandan people, in dress of skins and headdress of raven quills. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.
EditorialMandan warriors enjoying a horse race and gambling in Missouri. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.
EditorialThe Mint, Sha-ko-ka, a Mandan or Numakiki girl. A very pretty and modest girl, 12 years of age, with grey hair peculiar to the Mandan nation. Handcoloured lithograph after a painting by George Catlin from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man,...
EditorialThe Four Bears, Mah-to-toh-pa, second chief of the Mandan or Numakiki nation. In undress, being in mourning, with a few locks of hair cut off. His hair put up in plaits or slabs, with glue and red paint, a custom of the tribe. Handcoloured lithograph b...
EditorialThe Mink, Mi-meek-ee-sunk-te-ka, a Mandan or Numakiki girl. She wears a mountainsheep skin dress, ornamented with porcupine quills, beads, and elk's teeth. Handcoloured lithograph after a painting by George Catlin from James Cowles Prichard's Natural H...