Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village mb-artist Lindsay_Posner Mother and Children (La Promenade)

Mother and Children (La Promenade)

36 members were named by Mr Speaker

Sir Charles Santley

Taken during the Russo-Japanese War

Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village mb-artist Lindsay_Posner Mother and Children (La Promenade)Religious ceremony in a Mandan village, North America, 1841. Young men run in a circle dragging elk skulls behind them. The Mandan are a Native American tribe that historically lived on the banks of the Missouri and its tributaries in what is now North and South Dakota. Unlike the migrant Plains Indians ther lived in permanent villages of circular earth lodges. The Mandan were almost wiped out by a smallpox epidemic in 1837 1838. A print from 'North