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medicine tyhee
Pacific Coast
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a chief, or head, medicine-man (def. 1a).
Quotations
1884
He told me he was a medicine Tyhee, and inviting me into his house, showed me the curious medicine dance-dresses, wands, rattles, charms, etc., worn and used by him when practicing his healing art.