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Title: Postcard of Diné man
Contributor: Fred Harvey (Firm)
Detroit Publishing Co.
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1905-1930
Contributing Institution: Sherman Indian Museum
Collection: Sherman Indian Museum collection
Rights Information: Copyright Unknown
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Description: Scope/Content: Unused postcard of a man in traditional attire.
Funding: This item was digitized with support from a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Type: image
Format: 1 postcard
Form/Genre: postcards
Extent: 5.75 x 3.75 inches
Identifier: ark:/86086/n23779q3
sim_167_000_016
Language: English
eng
Subject: Diné (Navajo)
Portraits
Cultural heritage
Place: New Mexico
Relation: Culture
Location: Box 167
Transcription: Front: A Navaho Medicine Man, New Mexico. Back: Among the Navahos there are not fixed dates for ceremonies or holidays as among the Pueblos. Navaho ceremonies are held particularly on occasions of sickness and either consist of a prayer for the sick persons recovery or a celebration after recovery. The old medicine men are engaged by the family of the sick person and the wealthiest of the Indians engage the most famous and proficient medicine men and singers or chanters. This is one of the most famous medicine men, being unusually well versed in the religious myths of the tribe.

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