M0001965: Line illustrations from a publication depicting Indigenous North American medicine dance of the Winn-bagoes

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Indigenous North American medicine dance of the Winn-bagoes

Reproduction of two line illustrations depicting a members of the The Ho-Chunk or Winnebago community performing ritual medicine dance (top) and a traditional Native American healer administering to a patient (bottom). The images are possibly from Schoolcraft, Henry (1793-1864): Indian tribes of the United States, Philadelphia: 1856.

June 1931

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16 x 12.5 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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