Alaska: an Inuit medicine man wearing furs, a mask and oversized model hands, standing on the porch of a wooden building with a sick boy. Photograph, 19--.

1900-1999

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 13.8 x 8.7 cm

Eskimo medicine man, Alaska. Exorcising evil spirits from a sick boy. "Working to beat the devil", J.E.T.

A print of this photograph is in the Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., of photographs produced and gathered by Frank G. Carpenter (1855-1924) and his daughter Frances (1890-1972). Not reproduced in Frank G. Carpenter's book Alaska, our northern wonderland, Garden City, N.Y., 1923

Wellcome Collection 580843i