M0005525: Sacred birch bark records

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Sacred birch bark records.

Reproduction of a photograph of three sacred birch bark records published as plate XIX in Hoffman, Walter James: The Midewiwin, or, "Grand medicine society" of the Ojibwa, Washington, 1891. The upper-right specimen is a mnemonic song obtained from White Earth Reservation and the other two were obtained from Red Lake Reservation. A photograph of the book plate was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10788).

4 August 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication 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 2021.

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