The Mint, Sha-ko-ka, a Mandan or Numakiki girl.

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The Mint, Sha-ko-ka, a Mandan or Numakiki girl. A very pretty and modest girl, 12 years of age, with grey hair peculiar to the Mandan nation. Handcoloured lithograph after a painting by George Catlin from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.

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Size: 4265px × 7320px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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