National Anthropological Archives

MS 4699 How the Medicine Lodge Was Given to the Indian, including How to read the Medicine Scroll

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS4699
Creators:
Moorehead, Warren King, 1866-1939
Lufkins, John (Chippewa)
Dodge, Day (Chippewa)
Dates:
1910
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
9 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
It appears from the typescript that only one page of it is actually a translation or explanation of the scroll; the other pages are apparently a translation by Lufkins of an account by Day Dodge of the origin of the medicine lodge.

Administration

Existence and Location of Originals
The birch-bark roll is in the Phillips Academy Museum.
Custodial History
According to the letter of transmittal from Warren K. Moorehead, (Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, April 6, 1910) to F.W. Hodge, the typescript is a copy of part of a translation by John Lufkins, a half-blood Ojibwa graduate of Carlisle School, of a birch-bark record given to Moorehead by Day Dodge, the only surviving medicine man of the Otter Tail band of Ojibwas. Moorehead expected to receive a further translation of "the real secrets" which he promised to send to Hodge and which were not to be published until after the death of Day Dodge, then aged 82.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 4699, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 4699

Local Note

Local Note
Typescript document


Keywords

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Medicine scroll -- Chippewa Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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