# Sucking Doctor

Presents, in its entirety, the second and final night of a curing ceremony held by the Kashia group of the Southwestern Pomo Indians. Shows how on the first night (May 31, 1963), while the Shaman was in a hypnotic trance, the patient's pain was located and the germs removed from his body

Anthropology, David Wayne Peri, Robert Walter Wharton

Shaman, Piwóya (Essie Parrish); singers, Bernice Dollar, Bertha Antone, Julia Marrufo, Emmett Antone; fire tender, Clement Marrufo; patient, Sidney Parrish

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1964
- By: University of California (System). Extension Media Center
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/suckingdoctor)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/suckingdoctor?play=1)