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Grand Medicine Society. Both of them had participated in a celebra- 
tion held on Parry island about fifty years ago. Tom King was known 
to most of the whites in the vicinity as the Indian medicine-man. 
Jim Nanibush: an Ottawa Indian born in the United States, although his 
parents moved to Parry island when he was five years old. He was 
said to be the oldest Indian on the reserve, possibly about ninety, but 
still very active and in possession of all his faculties. 
Mary Sugedub: a woman of about fifty years of age, crippled since child- 
hood and in consequence unmarried. It was understood that she 
was an Ojibwa, native to Parry island. 
James Walker: a man of about seventy-five years of age, born, it was 
understood, on Parry island. He knew comparatively little about 
the old customs of his people, for all his life he had tried to adopt 
European habits. 
