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Medicine-headdress - Blackfoot
12018-03-16T21:07:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637294821By long usage the term "medicine" in the sense of supernatural has become firmly fixed in the literature of American Indians, and especially the plains tribes. A head-dress of the sort here depicted consists of some part of the body, sometimes the entire skin, of the creature that appeared as a spirit in a dream of the wearer and instructed him how to have its help, especially in war.plain2018-03-16T21:07:27-07:00Curtis, Edward S. 1868-19521926Digital images of the plates supported by an award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition, and mounted in American Memory. See http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html Digital reproduction of the photomechanical printcp18023 - portfolio 18 page plate no. 638For educational, non-commercial use only. Written permission required for any reproduction beyond fair use. Credit: Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis's "The North American Indian," 2003. http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.18, The Chipewyan. The Western woods Cree. The Sarsi ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1928), plate no. 6381 photogravure : brown ink ; 46 x 33 cm [plate size] Original photogravure produced in Cambridge, Mass. by Suffolk Engraving Co.http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/info.cgi?id=nai.18.port.00000024Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637