Brule Dakota man, High Bear cooking meat in a pouch
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content: OPPS NEG.3179 I
label: Local Note
content: Copyright 1911 by John A. Anderson (PF 4/3/1987)
label: Local Note
content: Extract of a letter from Eddie Herman, Hot Spings, South Dakota, dated January 11, 1950, to Dr Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. "In the summer of 1920 I saw an Indian Medicine man perform this feat the cooking of meat in the pouch or stomach of cow. This drum was hung on four sticks then filled with water. "Grey whitish rocks the same used to heat the e-ne-ga-ga or sweat bath were heated white hot in a camp fire. These were dropped into the drum full of water then meat was placed in the boiling water where it soon cooked. "After the meat was cooked the medicine man thrust his arm into the boiling water - (past his elbow) dug out the chunks of buffalo meat. He handed one piece to my mother. It was so hot she had to drop it.
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content: This amused the medicine man and the Indians who were watching the performance. Later he told my mother that he used a preparation made from the resien weed to protect his arm. He said other medicine men used different weeds which they had first seen in their dreams. The Burnt Thigh Sioux also use the resien weed as a medicine or cure for dysentery. "This medicine man told my mother that the Sioux had no pottery because they were constantly on the move. So used this method of cooking after they had left the woodlands. Le Raye in his journal said they used this method 1801."
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content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Anderson, John A.
topic: label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Anderson, John A.
culture: label: Culture
content: Dakota -- Brule
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Brulé Indians
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Anderson, John A.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Date: January 11, 1950. Penciled on reverse file print is statement: "Picture may have been taken 1920 Milk Creek Camp, Lower Rosebud Reservation."
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (5x7 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: Jan 11 1950 ?
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
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content: Old time manner of cooking without pottery. Cooking meat in the pouch or stomach of a cow, at Milk Creek camp on Lower Rosebud Reservation (for Brule or Burnt Thigh Sioux) on Ponca Creek, so named because of Chief Milk, sub-chief of the Burnt Thigh (Brule) under Swift Bear.