Birch Bark Scroll, Introductory Song To Grand Medicine Rite
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Oct 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Walter J. Hoffman
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Birch bark. This scroll is broken into two pieces along a crease down the middle. -LHC 9/77. Old label: 'Birchbark record illustrating the medicine man practicing an incantation in order to take away the life of a man at a distant camp. Chippewa Indians (Algonquian family).'" REFERENCE: "THE MIDEWIWIN OR 'GRAND MEDICINE SOCIETY' OF THE OJIBWA", BY W.J. HOFFMAN, PP. 143-300, PLS. II-XXIII, FIGS. 1-39, IN SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 024984
label: USNM Number
content: E153146-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Scroll