Mandan religious ceremony - the body suspension ritual, part of the four-day O-Kee-Pa buffalo dance. Young men are suspended by the skin from scaffolds and hung with shields and bison skulls. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

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