The Midēʹwiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa / by W.J. Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899.

Series:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; 7th.

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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Midewiwin.

Ojibwa Indians--Religion.

Ojibwa Indians.

Ojibwa Indians--Medicine.

Ojibwa Indians--Rites and ceremonies.

Indians of North America--Medicine--Minnesota.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Medicine--Wisconsin.

Indians of North America--Minnesota--Rites and ceremonies.

Indians of North America--Wisconsin--Rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (p. 143-300, [22] leaves of plates (some fold.)) : ill., fold. map.

Place of Publication:

[Washington : G.P.O., 1891]

Contents:

Introduction

Shamans

Midēʹ wiwin

First degree. Preparatory instructions ; Midēʹ therapeutics ; Imploration for clear weather ; Initiation of candidate ; Descriptive notes

Second degree

Third degree

Fourth degree

Dzhibaiʹ Midēʹ wigân

Initiation by substitution

Supplementary notes. Pictography ; Music ; Dress and ornaments ; Future of the society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Plates include maps and texts of songs.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

OCLC:

1111145947