Twined medicine bundle cover

This sacred image of a Misshipeshu or Underwater Panther indicates that the bag held a medicine bundle. The great manito of the under-earth realm, a source of danger as well as wealth and healing powers, is represented both by a rendering of its lower body and by rows of power lines expressing the g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Unknown
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Decorative Art
Native American: Anishinabe
Native American
post-contact
Anishinaabe
Odawa
manito
manitoo
Canada
anishina*
Online Access:http://digital.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/arthist2/id/140884
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Summary:This sacred image of a Misshipeshu or Underwater Panther indicates that the bag held a medicine bundle. The great manito of the under-earth realm, a source of danger as well as wealth and healing powers, is represented both by a rendering of its lower body and by rows of power lines expressing the great waves whipped up in the Great Lakes by its long tail.

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