Also indexed as medicine men.
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.
52.1%of this figure's records include a coded region