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Indians of North America -- Medicine

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Black and white steel engraving of a “Medicine Dance of the Winnebagoes.” (1853). Shows dances holding the skins of small animals. Gives a splendid view of the inside of a lodge. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 165
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving of “A Medicine Man Administering to a Patient.” (1853). Medicine man is seen shaking a gourd inside a tepee with his patient lying by his side under a fur rug. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1853

 Item — Box Photo F-92A, item: 139
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1853

Black and white steel engraving of “A Seer Attempting to Destroy an Indian Girl By a Pencil of Sunlight.” (1856). Shows sunrays shining through a small hole in the lodge and shining on the sleeping girl’s face. The seer stands outside the lodge and holds a small animals’ skin. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1856

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 178
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1856

Black and white steel engraving of an “Indian Doctor Concocting a Pot of Medicine.” (1856). Shows Indian sitting inside a lodge of the Winnebago type. By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1856

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 177
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1856

Black and white steel engraving of “Indian Medas Secretly Showing the Contents of Their Medicine Sacks to Each Other.” (1856). By S. Eastman from Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes. , 1856

 Item — Box Photo F-92B, item: 182
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white and color engravings of Indians of the Southwest, namely Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo. Included are scenes of village life, native dwellings, individual Indians, and dances. Though less numerous, depictions of hunting and ceremonies of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Mandan Indians are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1856

CIBA Pharmaceutical Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-107
Scope and Contents

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Consists of twenty-eight issues of "CIBA Symposia." Each issue is devoted to a particular topic connected to the history of medicine. Volume 11, No. 3 (December, 1949-January, 1950) is devoted to "Primitive Obstetrics" and includes information on pregnancy and childbirth among Native Americans.

Dates: 1940-1951

Doris Duke Indian Oral History Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-1931
Scope and Contents

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Oral history collection. Typescripts of interviews conducted with hundreds of American Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective tribes. Included are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed.

Dates: 1967-1972

Fred Lincoln Wenner Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-652
Scope and Contents

Journalist. Typescripts and manuscripts (1889-1939), and clippings (n.d.) regarding the history and settlement of Oklahoma; and correspondence (1904-1950) between Wenner and the Territorial Board for the Leasing of School Lands, of which Wenner was secretary, and with notable personalities in Oklahoma regarding Oklahoma history. Fred L. Wenner Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1887-1950

Walter Stanley Campbell Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-84
Scope and Contents

Professor. Personal correspondence (1897–1957); correspondence with Campbell’s relatives (1822–1896); correspondence with publishers and literary agents (1920–1958); literary manuscripts (circa 1914–1957); diaries, notebooks, and journals (1901–1926); and business papers (circa 1925–1959) regarding Campbell’s writings on the West, Indians, and Oklahoma, with emphasis on transportation, fortifications, cowboys, wars and battles, criminals and outlaws, and American Indian chiefs, along with original Indian art by Carl Sweezy. [Boxes 104 through 121 of this collection are available online at the OU Libraries website.]FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Dates: 1800-1964