Skip to main contentDescriptionGroup. Indians in foreground crouched over in dance movement. Other men with buffalo heads and spears dancing in background.
Bison Dance of the Mandan Indians, in front of their Medicine Lodge
Artist/Maker
Karl Bodmer
Switzerland, 1809 - 1893
Datec. 1837
MediumBlack and white aquatint; mezzotint; etching
Dimensionsimage: 16 1/4 × 21 1/4 in. (41.3 × 54 cm)
frame: 23 × 27 in. (58.4 × 68.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert J. and Geraldine W. Dellenback, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1991.049.019
ClassificationsPrint
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