medical bag, unrecorded Plains artist

Artwork Overview

medical bag, circa 1890
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: rawhide
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Length (Height x Width x Length): 11 x 12.5 x 28.5 cm
Object Height/Width/Length (Height x Width x Length): 4 5/16 x 4 15/16 x 11 1/4 in
Credit line: Gift from the Menninger Foundation
Accession number: 2007.6084
Not on display

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Label texts

Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
This simple rawhide bag was once in the collection of the Menninger Museum, where the file indicated it was used by a Plains medicine man to hold healing tools but deliberately fashioned after the medical kits carried by white doctors in the late 1800s. Although this statement cannot be verified, it highlights the connections between emerging Western medical science and Indigenous forms of healing at this time.
Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
This simple rawhide bag was once in the collection of the Menninger Museum, where the file indicated it was used by a Plains medicine man to hold healing tools but deliberately fashioned after the medical kits carried by white doctors in the late 1800s. Although this statement cannot be verified, it highlights the connections between emerging Western medical science and Indigenous forms of healing at this time.

Exhibitions

Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
2021