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

Author/creator Corlett, William Thomas
Format Book
Publication InfoSpringfield, Ill. : C.C. Thomas, ©1935.
Descriptionviii, 369 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [337]-354) and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection.
LCCN 35012167

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Laupus Books - Stacks WZ 70 DA1 C799M 1935 ✔ Available Place Hold