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INDEX TO BULLETINS 1-100 



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Medicine — Continued 



meaning of the term, 77: 164 

 mineral elements in, 99 : 57 

 of tlie Wtiites, Clierokee attitude to- 

 ward, 99: 108 

 plants used as, 73 : 45, 56 

 power of, 72 : 31 

 practice of, 73: 79,385 

 principalliinds of, 53: 63-67 

 rabbit sent with, Hitchiti story, 



88: 112 f. 

 songs connected witli, 53: 15, 35 

 [Songs Nos. 6, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 

 26, 27, 28, 32, 36, 141, 142, 143] 

 tobacco in practice of, 94 : 225-233 

 use of, by Natchez, 43: 80-86 

 use of, in warfare, 53: 91, 98, 99, 



102 f ., 107, 112 

 use of water in, 99 : 57 

 warpath. Fox, 72: 33 

 See also Diseases ; Folk medicine ; 

 Formulas ; Medicine men ; Sha- 

 man; Sick (treatment of) ; Sick- 

 ness. 

 Medicine bag 



of the Dakotas, ,77 : 55 

 place of, with corpse, 83 ; 3, 25 

 remarks concerning, 61: 252 ff. 

 See also Mide' bags. 

 Medicine basket, description of, 90: 



195 

 Medicine Dance, object of, 99 : 75 

 Medicine feast 



of the Hidatsa, 77: 143 fE. 

 of the Mandan, 77: 135, 136 

 Medicine Lodge 



Arikara, 77: 172 f., 178 

 ceremony of erecting, 77 : 33 

 of the Blackfeet, 77: 33 

 of the Mandan, 77:129 

 Ojibway, 77 : 12, 13, 16 f. 

 uses of, 34 : 225 

 Medicine men 



activities of, 99: 85 

 among the Maricopa, 34: 248 

 among the Mohave, 34: 248 

 among the Navaho, 34: 169, 238, 



239 f. 

 among the Pima, 34 : 170, 243, 244, 



247 

 among the Yuma, 34: 249 

 anatomical knowledge of, 99: 90 

 as rainmakers, 80: 37 f. 

 assistance of, in childbirth, 99: 



123, 125 

 attitude toward, 99 : 93 

 botanical knowledge of, 99: 88, 89 

 canonization of, 99: 88 

 classes of, 99 : 84-88 

 disease spread by, 90 : 83 f . 

 enemy located by, 90: 180 

 exhibition of power of, 90: 145 

 fees of, 99: 95 fe. 

 function of, 93 : 4 

 general account of, 34: 221-224 



Medicine men — Continued 



importance and influence of, 99: 



83, 92 

 in childbirth cases, 34: 58, 62 f. 

 instruction for career of, 99: 100- 



103 

 methods of, 90:183 

 paraphernalia of, 99: 58 f. 

 personalities of, described, 99: 



109-119 

 place of, in warfare, 99: 91 

 power of, 90: 85, 183 f., 202 

 professional ethics of, 99: 93 ff. 

 qualifications for, 99: 99 

 rain located by, 90 : 162 

 relations between, 99: 98 

 responsibility of, 79: 9 

 scope of knowledge of, 99: 88-91 

 sickness caused by, 90 : 83 

 sick treated by, 83: 11, 13, 46, 81 

 sincerity of, 99: 93, 95 

 social status of, 99 : 91 ff. 

 sorceries of, 73: 162 

 status of, in ball game, 99: 91 

 succession to office of, 99: 105 

 supernatural power of, 99: 18 

 treatment of sick by, 53: 263 f. 

 treatment of wounded by, 83: 62 

 treatment to insure sex of child, 



34: 52 

 tribal details of, 34 : 224-229 

 use of the term, 90: 82; 99: 84, 



85 

 who becomes, 67: 227 

 See also Divinators ; Folk medi- 

 cine ; Medicine women ; Priests ; 

 Shamans. 

 Medicine Men's Society, existence of, 



doubtful, 99:97f. 

 Medicine of war, use of, by Natchez, 



43: 123, 124 

 Medicine performance of the Kutenai, 



59:52,53 

 JMedicine pole 



description of, 53: 247-250 

 use of, 83:47 



use of, in ceremony for dying chief, 

 45: 52, 53 

 Medicine pole and stone 

 description of, 45: 36 

 disposition of, 45: 51 

 Medicine power, expedition to obtain, 



90 : 169 f ., 171 f . 

 Medicines 



songs connected with, 45: 15, 20, 



21, 96, 109 

 use of, in Mide', 45:20f. 

 Medicine songs 



always used by doctors, 72: 31 

 Fox text and translation of, 72: 



24, 25 

 Mandan and Hidatsa, 80: 149, 

 150, 173 

 Medicine women 



account of, 34 : 222, 224 

 scarcity of, 99: 84 



