Crow Healer - Tes'Tush - "Wolf" Medicine Man

This charcoal portrait is of the Crow Healer, Tes’ Tush. He became known as “Wolf” due to his elaborate wolf-like costume, and the Stalking Wolf Ceremony he used during his healing treatments, which were very successful with his medicines. Healers or Medicine Men were trained in herbal remedies, ceremonies and traditions. Tes' Tush carried his herbs in a medicine bag which was actually a tanned wolf skin, and was called upon for treatments throughout the Crow Nation.