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Bird's-eye View of the Mandan Indian Village, 1800 Miles above St. Louis, by George Catlin, 1839.
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An oil on canvas Bird's eye view of the Mandan Indian Village consisting of round indian huts and villagers.

Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr. 1985.66.502

A devastating outbreak of smallpox in 1837 had decimated the once numerous Mandan of North Dakota and reduced them to a single tribe before George Catlin painted this Bird's-eye View of the Mandan Village, 1800 Miles above St. Louis, in 1839.

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