The Midēʹwiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
By: by W.J. Hoffman
Series: Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution -- 7th [paper no. 2]; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: G.P.O.
Published: 1891
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Midéwiwin; Ojibwa Indians; Religion; Medicine; Rites and ceremonies; Indians of North America
Other titles: "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
Notes: Plates include maps and texts of songs.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Shamans; title: Midēʹ wiwin; title: First degree. Preparatory instructions ; Midēʹ therapeutics ; Imploration for clear weather ; Initiation of candidate ; Descriptive notes; title: Second degree; title: Third degree; title: Fourth degree; title: Dzhibaiʹ Midēʹ wigân; title: Initiation by substitution; title: Supplementary notes. Pictography ; Music ; Dress and ornaments ; Future of the society.