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Vol. II · Polytheism
Mishipeshu
Ojibwe underwater panther
a great horned lynx stretching beneath the frozen surface of a lake, its copper-spiked tail capable of capsizing any birchbark canoe
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.