A medicine man curing a patient / Capt. S. Eastman, U.S.A., del. ; C. Schuessele lith. – Historic Print
![A medicine man curing a patient / Capt. S. Eastman, U.S.A., del. ; C. Schuessele lith., Philadelphia : P.S. Duval, [published 1851] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/62/627d17f6566d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures A medicine man curing a patient / Capt. S. Eastman, U.S.A., del. ; C. Schuessele lith. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A medicine man curing a patient / Capt. S. Eastman, U.S.A., del. ; C. Schuessele lith.
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A medicine man bends over a sick patient in this color lithograph, drawn by Capt. S. Eastman of the U.S. Army and printed by C. Schuessele. It appeared as plate 46 in Henry R. Schoolcraft's *Indian Tribes of the United States*, published in Philadelphia in 1851, a multivolume survey of Native peoples that relied heavily on army officers' sketches and reports. The healer is shown as an exotic figure for a white audience, so the picture reveals as much about mid-century American assumptions about Native medicine as it does about the practice itself.
| Created / published | Philadelphia : P.S. Duval, [published 1851] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1850-1860.Lithographs Color 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Indian Tribes of the United States / collected and prepared ... by Henry R. Schoolcraft L.L.D. Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1851, pl. 46. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Health & welfare--1850-1860. Shamans--1850-1860. Sick persons--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,826 × 4,720 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219745 |
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