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Native American cures for the sick
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![[Native American cures for the sick]. Description: Native American methods of curing the sick. The sick are either laid face up or down on platforms. On one side a man sucks blood from the head of a sick man. On the other, seeds are burnt and the fumes are inhaled by the patient. One woman nurses a child and another woman who is pregnant drinks from a bowl. Two children fight or play. In the background, a woman offers tobacco to a man with a pipe. In the background, men [or hermaphrodites] carry corpses on a stretcher or by piggyback. Source title: Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën ... zedert het jaar 1524 tot 1526. Source place of publication: In het ligt gegeven te Leyden [Leiden]. Source publisher: Door Pieter Vander Aa, boekverkoper in de St. Pieters Koor-steeg, in Plato. Source date: 1707. Record number: 08984-175.](https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/preview/YJC/YJC0/YJC0012/YJC0012957_Native-American-cures-for-the-sick.jpg "Native American cures for the sick")
| Caption | [Native American cures for the sick]. Description: Native American methods of curing the sick. The sick are either laid face up or down on platforms. On one side a man sucks blood from the head of a sick man. On the other, seeds are burnt and the fumes are inhaled by the patient. One woman nurses a child and another woman who is pregnant drinks from a bowl. Two children fight or play. In the background, a woman offers tobacco to a man with a pipe. In the background, men [or hermaphrodites] carry corpses on a stretcher or by piggyback. Source title: Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën ... zedert het jaar 1524 tot 1526. Source place of publication: In het ligt gegeven te Leyden [Leiden]. Source publisher: Door Pieter Vander Aa, boekverkoper in de St. Pieters Koor-steeg, in Plato. Source date: 1707. Record number: 08984-175. |
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| Creator | see caption |
| Artwork medium | engraving |
| Credit | Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library |
| Terms of use | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
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