Mandan Indians -- The Evil Spirit arrested in his progress, Ka-se-pah, c.1843-50 (watercolour)

C.H.S. watercolor drawings of Indians of North, South, and Central American, the West Indies, and Mexico, copied from various sources, ca. 1843-ca. 1850 Drawing No. 14. Caption: "Okee-hee-de, the Evil Spirit, the diluvian destroyer about to be arrested in his progress by the Ka-se-pah with the medicine pipe and repelled from the big canoe or ark." Rendering of the Mandan flood ceremony. Man painted black (with white spots) runs with a long red-tipped stick. He passes three bears guarding a tall wooden structure (the "ark" or "big canoe"), and man with a pipe, and another man sitting with a mallet or shaker. by C. H. S.