OSAGE
"Star That Travels (also called Fat On Skin, or Bacon Rind) is tattooed with marks of an Osage secret society, a great honor allowing him such privileges as presiding at ceremonies.  His medal appears to be James Buchanan Peace Medal issued in 1857."

NOTES
DeLancey Gill/Bureau of American Ethnology/ Washington, D.C./1900.

Credits:
Indians, Joanna Cohan Scherer, from collection of the Smithsonian Institution, 1973.