Lot 127
GERALD LAZARE AND LEWIS PARKER,
Additional Images
Note:
A label on the reverse of this artwork explains, “This montage shows aspects of the oki and sorcerer.
In the center, a figure beats a turtle rattle while studying the flames and water for omens.
Clockwise, from the top, the chief and oki administrate a ritual cure during an epidemic.
Next, two sorcerers handle fire, putting hot coals in their mouths.
An oki shakes the ‘sands of an illness’ fro the patient.
A black sorcerer injects a curse in the form of a bear’s foot into a victim; while another oki drives out the curse by the pointing of a bone knife.
A sorceress determines the outcome of a battle between the Huron and the Iroquois with fires around an outline of the ‘Lake of the Iroquois’ (Lake Ontario).
The sorcerer having decried a woman as a witch, now has to select her own executioner during the ceremony in which she is to die.”