Author: Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952)
Title: The Medicine Man (Slow Bull) 1907. An Oglala Sioux Medicine Man, Plate No. 76 . First Edition of the Photogravure
Description: Cambridge, MA: 1907. 55,5 x 45,7 cm - 21 7/8 x 18 3/4 inches.. Photogravure by John Andrew and Sons, plate no. 76 on Hollande Van Gelder paper, title, copyright and plate number printed in the margin.. Photo-engraving by John Andrew and Sons, plate no. 76 on Hollande Van Gelder paper, title, copyright, plate number printed in the margin.Slow Bull, full-length portrait, facing front, holding pipe, buffalo skull at his feet. Invocation and supplication enter so much into the life of the Indian that this picture of the grim old warrior invoking the Mysteries is most characteristic. The subject of the illustration is Slow Bull, whose biography is given in Volume III, page 189. .

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