| doctor, sucking doctor Sucking doctors would suck until they drew blood from the location of the pain/ailment. They mostly used angelica root as medicine. Only medicine men and dreamers would pound and smoke the root, it was the only herb that they used that made them dreamy at all, or they’d chew it and rub it on the sick person. Women were mostly sucking doctors. The word matu: covers all kinds of doctoring. This ability was something that was given to them by ko:t̪u | |
| dreamer doctor For these doctors, they had feelings come over them, a sort of premonition. | |
| poison man | |
| doctoring, doctoring (someone), singing doctor This doctor did his doctoring with the k'ayo:yo rattle - he would shake the rattle as he sang. He would sing and describe your symptoms, then he made an image, replica, or facsimile out of animal skins of what you were supposed to have seen (that may have caused the illness). He would sing and dance with the rattle and go through a ritual, motioning to the person who’s sick. He’d talk to the illness and shoo it away. The ritual was done four times. While this was going on for four days and four nights, the people of the patient would abstain from eating certain food like fried food or grease or meat. For a video, please visit https://aifg.arizona.edu/film/pomo-shaman from the University of California to see Essie Parrish singing doctoring. | |
| doctor someone, singing doctor a person | |
| doctor someone (multiple times, over and over, again and again), singing doctor | |
| doctoring someone (multiple times, over and over, again and again), singing doctoring | |
| doctor, check in on someone (as a doctor) This word can also be translated as "do" or "make" in other contexts. | |
| blowing, blowing on (while doctoring) This was done by the doctor/medicine man, with his lips extended he would blow over the affected area, and this was done four times. | |
| bilabial click, make a kissing noise, noise made by sucking through one’s pursed lips This was done when doctoring and was also performed four times. | |
| bilabial click, making a kissing noise, noise made by sucking through one’s pursed lips This was done when doctoring and was also performed four times. | |
| go into a fit (when being doctored) This is the word that described when someone would pass out and then wake up with the dream that makes them a doctor. It is also used when michayin doctoring someone and they react to the doctoring: e.g. someone passed out when catching a fish. The doctor would ask what happened and the sick person would give a description of how it was unusual. The doctor would make a replica of that thing (in this case the fish.) That’s what he doctors him with - he passes that over the sick person. He mayi:jin if he starts shivering and shaking or passes out, responding to the replica. It’s a sign that this is what he came across that made him sick. see also: take after, act like | |
| go into a fit (when being doctored) see also: take after, act like | |
| going into a fit (when being doctored) see also: taking after, acting like | |
| went into a fit (when being doctored) see also: took after, acted like | |
| Indian doctor medicine kit | |
| Indian doctor medicine kit | |
| bolts of cloth, cloth fabric; from Spanish manta "blanket" or "coarse cloth" | |