Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village mb-artist Lindsay_Posner McMahon as Mercury pours a

McMahon as Mercury pours a chamber pot over his flaming head

Taken during the Russo-Japanese War

Two elegant women in cloche hats and fur coats sit in the back

View from the River Thames with boats and crew on the water

Sir Charles Santley

Religious Ceremony, Mandan Village mb-artist Lindsay_Posner McMahon as Mercury pours aReligious 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