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Dancing into the Medicine Lodge - Arikara
(1908)
Photogravure
Volume V
Arikara Buffalo Society members about to enter the Medicine Lodge.
This society combined buffalo-calling and thanksgiving rituals with
curing functions.
"As a rule medicine men belonged to the medicine fraternity, of
which there were nine orders, each having for its medicine a spirit
of its own. The members of the fraternity had their individual healing
medicines which included a considerable number of herbs and roots."
-Curtis
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