Sioux chief Shoo-de-ga-cha, Smoke, in buffalo robe outside a teepee 87 and his wife or squaw Hee-la'h-dee, Pure Fountain 88. Her arms and neck are tattooed by pricking with gunpowder and vermilion. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

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