Research Catalog

Title

The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background, by William Thomas Corlett ...

Author

Corlett, William Thomas, 1854-1948.

Publication

Springfield, Ill., Baltimore, Md., C.C. Thomas [©1935]

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Details

Description

viii pages, 2 leaves, [3]-369 pages illustrations, portraits, plates

Subject

• Indians of North America > Medicine
• Indians of South America > Medicine
• Indians of North America
• Indians of South America > Social life and customs
• Ethnology
• Shamans
• Indians > Medicine > North America
• Indians > Medicine
• Indians, North American
• Indians, South American
• Medicine, Traditional
• Anthropology, Cultural
• shamans
• Shamans
• Indians > Medicine
• Ethnology
• Indians of North America
• Indians of North America > Medicine
• Indians of South America > Medicine
• Indians of South America > Social life and customs
• Indios
• North America

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [337]-354.

Contents

1. Racial origin; peopling of the New World; cultural divisions of the New World -- 2. Indian diseases: past and present -- 3. Religion, medicine-men, and disease -- 4. The arctic: western Eskimo, eastern Eskimo, the northwest coast -- 5. The plains: Blackfoot, Assiniboine, Crow, Omaha, Pawnee -- 6. The northern woodland: Ojibwa (or Chippewa), Menomini, eastern Algonkian, Iroquois -- 7. The southern woodland: Creek, Chowtaw, and Chickasaw, Cherokee -- 8. The southwest: Acoma, Navajo -- 9. Central America: Aztec, Maya -- 10. Antillean or West Indies -- 11. Colombia -- 12. Tropical forest or Amazon region -- 13. Peruvian or Inca area -- 14. Patagonia -- 15. Childbearing -- 16. Foods and materia medica -- 17. The American Indian's recessional.

LCCN

35012167

OCLC

• ocm00788746
• 788746
• SCSB-113555

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library