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The Medicine-Men of the Apache. (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604)) — John Gregory Bourke

The Medicine-Men of the Apache. (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604))

John Gregory Bourke

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 251 pages

An ethnographic essay by John G. Bourke, a U.S. Army captain, on Apache medicine-men, their healing practices, superstitions and ritual objects. It covers sacred pollen hoddentin and the medicine cord izze-kloth, drawing on late 19th-century observations. A historical account for those interested in Native American religion and early anthropology.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. THE MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE.
  2. CHAPTER I. THE MEDICINE-MEN, THEIR MODES OF TREATING DISEASE, THEIR SUPERSTITIONS, PARAPHERNALIA, ETC.
  3. CHAPTER II. HODDENTIN, THE POLLEN OF THE TULE, THE SACRIFICIAL POWDER OF THE APACHE; WITH REMARKS UPON SACRED POWDERS AN
  4. CHAPTER III. THE IZZE-KLOTH OR MEDICINE CORD OF THE APACHE.
  5. BIBLIOGRAPHY.
  6. INDEX.
  7. FOOTNOTES:
  8. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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