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TITLE OF WORK: A Yuma medicine man. Sketches of Arizona and Southern California

TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut

DATE: 1888

DIMENSIONS: 17.4 x 12 cm

COMMENTS: The Zunis, Moquis and Yumas cherishing snake-worship, ancestor-worship and the necromantic practices of a class of medicine-men, whose ritual consists partly of dances and flute-playing, as shown in o

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Arizona, New Mexico

DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo

KEYWORDS: therapy, religion