EditorialPreparation of soup. The Ni'matnama-i Nasir al-Din Shah. A manuscript o. 1495 - 1505. Preparation of soup for the Sultan Ghiyath. The small inscription appears to be 'randhan', the preparation of food. Again Ghiyath Shahi is seated in a garden pavilion...
EditorialMandan religious ceremony - the last race or Eh-ke-na-ka-nah-pick, part of the four-day O-Kee-Pa buffalo dance. Exhausted young men run or are dragged in an attempt to shake off the splints and buffalo skulls skewered in their skin. Handcoloured lithog...
EditorialDog 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 me...