The Medicine-Men of the Apache

The Grand Medicine Society described from the inside: initiation degrees, birch bark song scrolls, herbal knowledge and the pictographs used to record it all. Illustrated with colour plates of the original charts.

Walter James Hoffman

Dorsey collected beliefs and ceremonies from the Omaha, Ponca, Osage, Dakota and their neighbours, recording sacred objects, vision quests and the work of the medicine man in each group.

James Owen Dorsey

A full record of the nine night healing ceremony, with the myths behind it, the songs in Navajo and English, the sandpaintings and the role of the chanter. Matthews watched it performed many times before writing this.

Washington Matthews

The origin myth, initiation and memorial rites of the Mitawin lodge, recorded in the early twentieth century with notes on how neighbouring peoples ran the same ceremony.

Alanson Skinner