Sucking Doctor

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1964

Creator: University of California-EMC

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Presents, in its entirety, the second and final night of a curing ceremony held by the Kashia group of the Southwestern Pomo Indians. Shows how on the first night (May 31, 1963), while the Shaman was in a hypnotic trance, the patient's pain was located and the germs removed from his bodyAnthropology, David Wayne Peri, Robert Walter WhartonShaman, Piwóya (Essie Parrish); singers, Bernice Dollar, Bertha Antone, Julia Marrufo, Emmett Antone; fire tender, Clement Marrufo; patient, Sidney Parrish

Complete Record: Presents, in its entirety, the second and final night of a curing ceremony held by the Kashia group of the Southwestern Pomo Indians. Shows how on the first night (May 31, 1963), while the Shaman was in a hypnotic trance, the patient's pain was located and the germs removed from his body Anthropology, David Wayne Peri, Robert Walter Wharton Shaman, Piwóya (Essie Parrish); singers, Bernice Dollar, Bertha Antone, Julia Marrufo, Emmett Antone; fire tender, Clement Marrufo; patient, Sidney Parrish