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soul-catcher
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1955
Peculiar to the medicine-men of the Haida, Tlinkit, and Tsimshian was the use of a special "soul-catcher," a bone tube, generally carved, for capturing the wandering souls of the sick and restoring them to their bodies.