Mandan 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 American Indians, London, 1841.

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