Medicine men : tooth of the mastadon at Peru, Indiana : Osage village

Description:	Medicine men Tooth of the Mastadon at Peru, Indiana. Osage village (title from verso of second page)AMs, 2 p. (written on back of preprinted insurance forms) The tooth of a mammoth was found in 1843 in a cornfield at the Osage village near Peru. The man who found it, a simple and uneducated person, thought he would make a fortune from it. A local wag played a practical joke on him, pretending to drop the tooth into the canal from the bridge near Godfroys trading post, while he actually had dropped a stone and palmed the tooth. It was later learned that the tooth was part of the contents of the medicine bag of a deceased resident of Osage Village.
Created By:	Winter, George, 1810-1876;
Publisher:	Tippecanoe County Historical Association
Source:	http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/ref/collection/gwinter/id/461
Collection:	George Winter
Copyright:	Images in the George Winter Collection should not be used without written permission from the Tippecanoe County Historical Association. To obtain reproduction rights and prices, contact the Tippecanoe County Historical Association at info@tippecanoehistory.org
Subjects:	Indians of North America--Indiana Peru (Ind.)

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