Bear's Belly
Arikara
Photograph by Edward S. Curtis
Copyright 1908

"Kunuh-Kananu", Arikara Medicine Man.
Cloaked in the skin of a bear he has killed,
Bear's Belly symbolically received Shamanic
powers from that sacred animal spirit and
identifies himself as a member in the Bear Clan.

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