Drums and Scalpel

SUBTITLED : ` From Native Healers to Physicians on the North Pacific Coast '. Business interests built fish canneries , such as Wannock, as early as 1882. This brought First Nations people into contact with white man's 9churches and0 medicine. LEARN more about : Namu, Good Hope, Kla-Quaek, Mrs. Dick Gosse, Bella Coola, cannery and gunpowder. R.W. Large (seemingly an ancestor of the author of these 145 pages) was one of the area's early medical practitioners. Read about his and other interactions. B/W photos accompany text. INDEX at back. Author has signed the title page. Cond : Boards are dark blue with gilt lettering on spine. End-papers are b/w maps of the Wadhams and Lama Pass region. D.J. is orange with black lettering. Cover photo is of an argillite totem figure. Volume tight and clean. D.J. is complete with plenty of edge wear. Almost collectible !! Quote (p. 20) : " ._._. and when the husband went out he saw man running away. It was quite evident to them that this man had come to cause her a serious illness, and we heard rumors of her sickness being caused by a stone lodged internally. We tried to convince them rhat such was not the case, but could see rthat there was a wish to call in an ._._._." Size: Octavo.…