M0001934EA: Reproduction of an engraving depicting an Ojibwe healer removing disease from a patient / M0001934EB: Reproduction of an illustration of charms used by an Ojibwe healer

Previous title, replaced May 2020: A Chippeway medicine man performing on a patient

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Charms used by a Chippeway medicine man

Two images on one negative: the first is a reproduction of an engraving depicting an Ojibwe healer sucking disease out of a patient using a special hollow bone from a German publication. The reproduction is similar to the illustration from Hoffman, W. J.: The Midewiwin, or, "Grand medicine society" of the Ojibwa, Washington: 1891, plate 18. Related images: M0005860. The second is a black and white reproduction of an illustration of charms used by an Ojibwe healer. The Ojibwe are an Anishinaabe people of Canada and the northern midwestern United States. The reproduction is from an unknown publication.

The first image is duplicated on a smaller glass plate negative (incorrectly labelled 1934[E]B)

June 1931

3 photographs, 2 on 1 plate glass plate negatives; range from 8.2 x 10.8 cm to 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a publication with a similar image to the one depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.