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Credit
M0005860: Traditional healer removing disease from a patient. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
M0005860: Traditional healer removing disease from a patient
- Date:
- 28 October 1938
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/48/66
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced August 2020: Native American medicine man sucking out disease
Description
Reproduction of a drawing with the caption "Jes'akkid' removing disease" showing a traditional healer sucking disease out of a patient using a special hollow bone. The reproduction is from Hoffman, W. J.: The Midewiwin, or, "Grand medicine society" of the Ojibwa, Washington: 1891, plate 18.. Related images: M0001934EA
Publication/Creation
28 October 1938
Physical description
2 photographs sheet film negative; 9.9 x 12.6 cm photographic print; 9 x 12 cm
Related material
Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative
Notes
Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request