Arikara
Photographed 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.
Arikara
Photographed 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.