"The long winter nights were devoted by the to the ceremonies of their secret fraternities, exhorting their most benevolent gods; rain priests in retreat invoked their anthropic deities for rain to fructify the earth, and elders taught the youths, sitting attentively at their knees by the flickering firelight, the mysteries of their life and religion. Of all the secrets of their lives none is more strictly guarded or more carefully transmitted than the knowledge of healing. The "doctor" instructs in the lore of plants, and the relation of plants to man and beast."
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Matilda Coxe Stevenson
(née Matilda Coxe Evans; sometimes published as Tilly E. Stevenson; May 12, 1849 – June 24, 1915), was an American anthropologist, , geologist, explorer, and activist for women's rights. A pioneer in the use of photography in ethnology, she was the first woman employed by the (BAE). In 1893 she was elected a Fellow of the .
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