"Indian Doctor Concocting a Pot of Medicine"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.48185
label: Local Note
content: The mat covered dwelling suggests a Chippewa structure -- Information from Frances Densmore, "The Collection of Water Color Drawings of the North American Indian by Seth Eastman in the James Jerome Hill Reference Library," 1954, page 40.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Eastman, Seth
topic: label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Eastman, Seth
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Eastman, Seth
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: 1854 is the date picture sent to be published (McDermott, page 87).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1854?
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Listed as #64 and reproduced as Fig. 7 in John Frances McDermott, The Art of Seth Eastman, A Traveling Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, 1959-1960 [Washington, 1959], 34 pages.
label: Bibliography
content: Reproduced in J. F. McDermott, Seth Eastman, Norman, 1961, Plate 90.
label: Bibliography
content: Engraving of this subject (cf. S.I. Negative 11752) published in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States, Part V, 1855, Plate 34.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Frances Densmore gives the following descriptive data on the practices of Indian medicine men: (pages 39-40) Doctor in the picture sings as he shakes a gourd rattle with his left hand and stirs medicine with the right. The skin of a large bird and large bag woven of bark or roots lies on the ground beside him. (Bag may be used for storing dried herbs). A pointed bag, such as the type used by the Dakotas in the old days to contain packets of herb medicine, hangs on the post at the left.