History of medicine in the province of Quebec / by Maude E. Abbott.

  • Abbott, Maude E. (Maude Elizabeth), 1869-1940.
Date:
1931
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Credit: History of medicine in the province of Quebec / by Maude E. Abbott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FIG. 1. SWEAT-LODGE USED IN INDIAN MEDICINE for purification of the candidate before initiation into the Midewiwin of the Ojibways. (Republished by permission of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology. 14th Annual Report, 1892-93, Part 1, p. 117.) FIG. 2. INTERIOR OF MIDEWIGAN in which the ceremony of initiation of the future Shaman is performed. Note the sacred Mide-post, the blanket spread for gifts from the candidate, and the sacred stone. (Republished by permission of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, 7th Annual RSport, 1885-86, p. 188.)