Interior View of the Medicine Lodge, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony
1832
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 58.4 × 70.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135697
The centerpiece of the Mandan religious calendar was the annual enactment of the O-kee-pa, a four-day ceremony that included the painful initiation of the most promising young men of the tribe. Their ordeal began with a four-day fast, strictly supervised by a priest in the medicine lodge. George Catlin witnessed the ceremony on his travels of the Upper Missouri in 1832. “I seized my sketch-book, …
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1832 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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