Bison Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of their medicine lodge.
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- Created Date
- 1836/1841?
- Description
Tableau 18 in atlas: Illustrations to Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the interior of North America. Depiction of a ceremony of the Buffalo Bull Society of the Mandan Indians. Members are wearing headdress of bison hide with attached horns. Two members are wearing full bison head masks. Others wear bulls tails, cloth tails and carry lances or curved wands. In 1836 Maximilian commissioned Bodmer to create illustrations to accompany the ...
- Creator
Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893
- Contributing Institution
- Newberry Library
- Location
- North America
- Type
- image
- Format
- AquatintsWorks of art
- Language
- English, French, German
- Rights
- The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to the following terms and conditions: https://www.newberry.org/rights-and-reproductions
- Chicago citation style
- Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893. Bison Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of their medicine lodge.. 1836/1841?. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/1940. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893, (1836/1841?) Bison Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of their medicine lodge.. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/1940
- MLA citation style
- Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/1940>.