DICTIONARY ENTRY005 / PUBLIC
SUPERNATURAL HUMANOID FIGURE
Medicine man
Also indexed as medicine men.
PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES1192.79% OF PUBLIC CORPUS
LEADING REGIONNorthern Territory46 coded records
DOCUMENTED SPAN1879–1925accepted dated records
MAPPED EVIDENCE32.5% geographically mapped
Historical public sources use this label for ritual specialists and describe healing, divination, ceremony, weather-making, or other attributed powers. These are source-bound colonial descriptions; the entry does not treat the term as a single identity or reproduce restricted knowledge. The accepted archive contains 119 records from 1879–1925. The largest coded regional group is Northern Territory (46), and the largest source group is Internet Archive (103). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.
OCCURRENCE TIMELINE
records by decade1870sPEAK 631920s
REGIONAL FIELD
62 region-coded records52.1%of this figure's records include a coded region
- 01Northern Territory4674.2%
- 02New South Wales914.5%
- 03Queensland69.7%
- 04South Australia11.6%
SOURCE CONCENTRATION
3 organisations86.6%held by the leading source
- 01Internet Archive103
- 02Internet Sacred Text Archive13
- 03Wikisource3
SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS
6 OF 119- 01medicine man in Australian Legends1925 / New South Wales
- 02medicine man in Australian Legends1925 / New South Wales
- 03medicine man in Australian Legends1925 / New South Wales
- 04Medicine man in Magic and Medicine1914 / Northern Territory
- 05medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia1914 / Northern Territory
- 06medicine man in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia1914 / Northern Territory