Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village Size:M: 60 x 40cm Found in the collection of

Found in the collection of the State Central M

The tomb of Boatswain

22nd October 1864

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

Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village Size:M: 60 x 40cm Found in the collection ofReligious 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