Sioux men dancing the Scalp Dance after a victory. They wave scalps stretched on poles, brandish knives, pipes and tomahawks, their bodies decorated with vermilion and charcoal tattoos. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

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