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Object Number
2004.29.5507
Display Title
Sick woman and medicine man.
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Written on board: "Paiute Indians, Shoshonean. / Sick [woman] and medicine man / Nevada."
Keywords
- Ethnographic
- Ritual Figure
Subject
- Medicine man
Department
Photographic
Date
1850-1899
Culture
- Paiute
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Nevada
Dimensions
Overall: 7.62 x 8.26 cm (3 x 3 1/4 in.)
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!["Night dance at Tsumkwe 1957-8, some published in my [Lorna Marshall's] dance paper": Medicine man curing a sick person, with a circle of people dancing in the background (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/739309/postagestamp)
!["Night dance at Tsumkwe 1957-8, some published in my [Lorna Marshall's] dance paper": Medicine man leaning over, curing a woman sitting with a group of women and children (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/739311/postagestamp)
