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An account of an annual religious ceremony practised by the Mandan tribe of the North American Indians
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- "Religious ceremony of the Mandan tribe"@en
- "Mandan ceremony"
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- "This manuscript corresponds very closely to a lecture given by Catlin in London in 1865, giving his account of the Mandan religious ceremony known as the Bull Dance, and other ceremonies more shocking to Victorian sensibilities. Elements of this work were incorporated into Catlin's "O-kee-pa", published by him in 1867, with the priapic Bull Dance described only briefly in a three-page Folium Reservatum, seldom found with copies. Two years prior to that, however, in 1865, Catlin had lectured to the Philobiblion Society on various Mandan religious ceremonies including a full account of the Bull Dance, but also a fertility dance in which the excited women dancers picked sexual partners to lead into the prairie for a roll in the buffalo grass, sometimes multiple ones in an evening, and other highly sexually charged ceremonies. Catlin refused to let his lecture be published, but did submit an account to the Society in writing. This was promptly published without Catlin's approval, in an edition of only fifty copies. Catlin publicly disavowed authorship, and demanded the surrender of every copy. This manuscript is a near word for word transcription of that unauthorized and exceedingly rare publication, differing in one notable respect; the manuscript uses the phrase 'my public works' while the 1865 printed version says 'my published works', suggesting that this is a copy of Catlin's original manuscript, not one of the printed copies. The manuscript is also notable for its calligraphy (not Catlin's hand), which is identical to that found in the labels of Catlin's later ALBUM UNIQUES, the commissioned collections of drawings he made for a few clients. However, the paper of the manuscript is watermarked 1869, placing it after the Philobiblion edition of 1865. Given the elegant nature of the manuscript, and its fine binding, it seems most likely that this manuscript was made for private circulation, perhaps to one of the owners of one of the albums. As the printed account is so very rare, and given the controversy at the time of its appearance in 1865, it is not surprising that a fine manuscript copy such as this would have been prepared--"
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- "An account of an annual religious ceremony practised by the Mandan tribe of the North American Indians"@en
- "An account of an annual religious ceremony practised by the Mandan tribe of North American Indians"
- "An account of an annual religious ceremony practised by the Mandan tribe of North American Indians"@en