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GC03 1/9th Four Bears of the Mandan £23.75

"One of the most extraordinary Indians that I have known. Free, generous, elegant and gentlemanly in his deportment. Handsome, brave and valiant." Thus wrote George Catlin, the famous artist and chronicler, of his friend Mah-to-toh-pa (the Four Bears), second ranking chief of the Mandan. The sedentary Mandan -a Souian-speaking tribe- lived in two villages on the banks of the Upper Missouri in nowadays North Dakota and were among the first Plains Indians to make contact with the white man. Their entire population of 2000 was virtually wiped out by a small-pox epidemic in 1837. As depicted, Four Bears is wearing a buckskin shirt richly embroidered with porcupine quill. On his hair, embedded in coloured clay are the six wooden sticks symbolising his six musquet wounds. On the side of his head, the red wooden knife commemorates his victory over a Cheyenne chief. On the back,a vermilion-dyed horse's mane falls down his owl feather headdress.

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