Cheyenne Courting Scenes

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Illustration

Joshua J. Mark
by Big Back, Cheyenne Artist
published on 31 July 2024
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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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Artist, Big Back, Cheyenne. "Cheyenne Courting Scenes." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified July 31, 2024. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/19266/cheyenne-courting-scenes/.

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Artist, Big Back, Cheyenne. "Cheyenne Courting Scenes." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 31 Jul 2024. Web. 09 Sep 2024.

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