Illustration
Cheyenne courting scenes by the Cheyenne artist Big Back, c. 1882. The scenes depict the sort of courtship ritual and acceptance of a proposed marriage as touched on in the Ehyophsta Legend of the Cheyenne when Coyote Man offers his daughter in marriage to the two young men.
Illustration from Our wild Indians; thirty-three years' personal experience among the red men of the great West by Richard Irving Dodge, A. D. Worthington and Company, 1882, Hartford, Conn.
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Artist, B. B. C. (2024, July 31). Cheyenne Courting Scenes. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/19266/cheyenne-courting-scenes/
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