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Edward S. Curtis - Giving the medicine--Navaho

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Edward S. Curtis - Giving the medicine--Navaho

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Photograph shows aNavajo shaman giving medicine to participant sitting atop blanket(?) used in sweatbath, as two others look on.

Curtis no. 1057-04.
Inscribed on verso: Yebichai giving the medicine.
Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "The Illusion of the American Frontier" at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 2015-Feb. 2016.

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01/01/1905
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Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer
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