2-756-685 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Everything happened as the Man of Wood had predicted', 1914. In Dakota legend, Chakopee the sole survivor of his tribe meets a man made of wood who tells him if he wears a white feather and smokes a pipe he will see the smoke turn into pigeons. From "The Myths of the North American Indians", by Lewis Spence F.R.A.I. [George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, Calcutta, Sydney, 1914]