M0001964: Line illustrations from a publication depicting a Native American "seer" and traditional healer making medicine

Previous title, replaced May 2020: A seer attempting to destroy a Native American by a pencil of sunlight.

Reproduction of two line illustrations of a Native American "seer" (top) and a traditional healer creating a pot of medicine (bottom), possibly from Schoolcraft, Henry (1793-1864): Indian tribes of the United States, Philadelphia: 1856, volume 5. The top image has been made into a photographic print.

June 1931

2 photographs glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm photographic print; 11 x 15 cm

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.

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