Back View of Mandan Village, Showing the Cemetery
1832
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28.5 × 36.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-136485
“[The Mandan] never bury the dead, but place the bodies on slight scaffolds just above the reach of human hands, and out of the way of wolves and dogs; and they are there left to moulder and decay. This cemetery, or place of deposit for the dead, is just back of the village, on a level prairie; and with all its appearances, history, forms, ceremonies, &c. is one of the strangest and most interest…
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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