Demystifying the Big Horn Medicine Wheel: A contextual analysis of meaning, symbolism, and function

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 47, Issue 180, 2002, Pages 61-71

  Liebmann, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Horn Mountains; Landscape archaeology; Medicine wheels; Vision quest

Indexed keywords

EID: 4844228590     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2052546.2002.11932109     Document Type: Article

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