Midewiwin Society drawing
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 278,098

USNM Accession 55,524
label: Variant Title
content: Mide Record, one side said to represent the path of life
name: label: Artist
content: Unknown
topic: label: Topic
content: Midéwiwin
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Purchased from Frances Densmore, Red Wing, Minnesota, temporarily at the Bureau of American Ethnology, June 9, 1913.  

Transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives, August 1969.
creator: label: Artist
content: Unknown
culture: label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
bioghist: label: Historical Note
content: Midewiwin, or Grand Medicine Society, is a spiritual society found historically among the Algonquian of the Upper Great Lakes (Anishinaabe), northern prairies and eastern subarctic. Once widespread, the Midewiwin became less prevalent after the arrival of Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Drawings (visual works) (graphite and ink on paper, laminated, 5.75 x 16.75 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
container: label: Container
content: Box 278098
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS278098
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Works of art
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a Midewiwin Society drawing with animal and abstract designs. One side of the drawing represents the path of life.

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