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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 20, 2015
Caption: Medicine Flag
Additional Description: "The principal Modoc shaman, Curley Headed Doctor, also braided rope made of tules, dyed it red, and placed it around the defensive positions. The Modocs believed that the soldiers could not pass the rope and that the medicine flag rendered the soldier's bullets harmless. Throughout the first battle the charms seemed to support the claims, for the soldiers retreated and no Modoc was killed, but in the second battle a Modoc was killed when he picked up a mortar ball that exploded in his face." - Captain Jack's Stronghold trail guide
Submitted: August 30, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p326018
File Size: 3.378 Megabytes

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