Dog Feast with dog meat given by Sioux chiefs He-wan-je-tah and Tehan-dee for visitors including George Catlin, and the body-suspension ritual of Looking at the Sun performed by a Sioux brave with splints skewered into his chest tied to a pole while medicine men chant and beat drums. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.

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