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[18--] (Creation)
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Reproduction of a birchbark scroll [mide-wiigwaas] described as having been owned by a member of the Ojibwe [Anishinaabeg] Midewiwin, or a member of the Grand Medicine Society. The scroll represents the degrees of membership that the owner had completed.
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Transferred from Controlled Access, 2018.
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Original in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.
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The Midewiwin, or Grand Medicine Society is a spiritual society found among varying Indigenous communities in the Maritimes, New England, and Great Lakes regions of North America. The Midewiwin is made of a community of healers called the Mide who perform religious ceremonies and act as spiritual advisors for their community. Mide may pass through 4-8 levels of membership, depending on the community that they come from. When birchbark scrolls [wiigwaasabakoon] are used in Midewiwin ceremony, the scrolls are referred to as mide-wiigwaas.
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JB August 2019.