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Chief Two Moon Bitter Oil Advertisement
1914-1933
Parker-Brawner Co.
USA: Washington, D.C.
Ink on Paper mounted on board
overall: 39-1/2"h x 52"w
Gift of Deborah Hills
75.72.1

Chief Two Moon Bitter Oil Advertisement. Poster from Chief Two Moon Herb Co., Waterbury, CT, of a patent medicine advertisement. It folds into three sections; left section has image of brick building and bitter oil bottle, reads "The Chief / Two Moon Laboratory / The Wonderful Laxative / Chief Two Moon / Cathartic / Chief Two Moon / Skin Cream / Chief Two Moon / Cough Elixir / Chief Two Moon / Liniment"; middle section has image of Indian in sky with word "Health," waterfall, bottle of Bitter Oil, reads "CHIEF TWO MOON / BITTER OIL"; right section has image of bus with advertisement for bitter oil, bitter oil bottle, reads "Palace De Luxe / Advertising Bus / The Only one of its Kind / Chief Two Moon / Bitter Oil / Chief Two Moon / Rectal Ointment / Chief Two Moon / Healing / Ointment / [copyright] THE CHIEF TWO MOON LABORATORY."


To sell his patent medicine, Chief Two Moon (real name: Chico Colon Meridas), who claimed to be Sioux, took advantage of Americans' romantic ideas about Native Americans' healing powers. For further information, Blog post, December 9, 2010, http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2010/12/chief-two-moon-meridas.html