Sucking Doctor

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

Credits

William Heick; David W. Peri (1939–); Robert Walter Wharton; Gordon M. Mueller; University of California (System). Extension Media Center

Complete catalog 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

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