Mandan 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 lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

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