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The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwaessay 1891 • Hoffman, Walter James
Ojibwa • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This monograph is concerned mostly with the process by which a neophite becomes a Mide' or shaman. The initiation ritual for each of the four degrees of the Mide'wiwin society is described in detail. The mnemonic devices or picture writings which ser...