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Title
The medicine man
William Smith Mason Collection of Western Americana
Alternative Title
Volume 3, plate 76
Creator
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
Publication Information
E. S. Curtis (Seattle); The University Press (Cambridge, Mass)
Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
West-ography, re-imaging the West
Rights Information
For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
Description
Invocation and supplication enter so much into the life of the Indian that this picture of the grim old warrior invoking the Mysteries is most characteristic. The subject of the illustration is Slow Bull, whose biography is given in Volume Ill, page 189.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
wor00140.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll8/id/169
Language
English
Subject
Sioux Nation
Portraits
Portrait photography
Photogravure
Native Americans
Jewelry
Dakota Indians
Clothing and dress
Shamans
Source
Photogravure, 18.25 x 22.25 inches: The North American Indian: being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, and Alaska, 970.6 C942 vol. 3 plates, William Smith Mason Collection of Western Americana, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
Relation
West-ography, re-imaging the West - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll8

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