Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village business person showing a fruit seller outside

showing a fruit seller outside her shop

Mick Channon and wife Jane & Janet Williams

including the Royal Academy and National Portrait Gallery (NPG Ax9207) have carte-de-visite details from this larger image

1215 (1864)

with a carriage and sedan chairs

Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village business person showing a fruit seller outsideReligious 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