2-756-783 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Pursuing Head', 1914. Blackfoot children are pursued by the severed head of their mother after their father cut it with an axe as she was in love with a rattlesnake. From "The Myths of the North American Indians", by Lewis Spence F.R.A.I. [George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, Calcutta, Sydney, 1914]