Content: Printed on border: "'A number of the young men are seen (inside the Mystery Lodge) reclining and fasting…others are yet seen in the midst of those horrid cruelties. One is seen smiling whildst the knife and the splints are passing through his flesh. One is seen hanging by the splints run through the flesh on his shoulders and drawn up by men on the top of the lodge. Another is seen hung up by the pectoral muscles with four buffalo skulls attached to splints throught the flesh on his arms and legs ; and each is turned round by another with a pole till he faints, etc.' " "Catlin's Eight years, vol. I : also Smithsonian report, 1895, p. 362."
Statement Of Responsibility: Printed on border: "U.S. Nat. Mu." "From a painting by George Catlin, 1832."
Source Note: The North Americans of yesterday : a compartive study of North American Indian life, customs, and products. (New York : Putnam, 1901) Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel (1853-1935), Author.

Physical Description

Line photoengravings
Extent: 1 print : b ; 12 x 16 cm. (4 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17620573
Barcode: 33333159347224
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f6abf920-c554-012f-5a2f-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1901

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The Okeepa ceremony of the Mandans, lasting four days" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1901. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f6abf920-c554-012f-5a2f-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1901). The Okeepa ceremony of the Mandans, lasting four days Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f6abf920-c554-012f-5a2f-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The Okeepa ceremony of the Mandans, lasting four days" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f6abf920-c554-012f-5a2f-58d385a7bc34

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