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A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

A 14th century silver drinking horn with explanatory text. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.

An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour.

The healer.

A hairy goat with long curved horns. Engraving.

John Cottington, a chimney-sweep, in elaborate costume walking the street with smoking pipe and horn in hand, with descriptive verse. Line block, 18--, after engraving, c. 1620.

At Fawk's booth in the upper Moorfields, is to be seen a miracle of nature, being a woman that has a horn growing on the back part of her head, full 10 inches long ...

A rhinoceros with a phallic-like horn and an elongated condom with the message in French: "What distinguishes humans from animals is (it is said) intelligence"; a statement about AIDS. Colour silk screen print after A. Le Quernec, 1993.

To the curious in nature : the Horned Woman : who has a horn growing on her head, like those in a young ram.

A ram, possibly of the blue or Burrhel sheep, with long curved horns. Lithograph by J Wolf.

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.

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Horns

Images about Horns

Works

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

A hairy goat with long curved horns. Engraving.

To the curious in nature : the Horned Woman : who has a horn growing on her head, like those in a young ram.

A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.

Horns

Images about Horns

Works

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

A hairy goat with long curved horns. Engraving.

To the curious in nature : the Horned Woman : who has a horn growing on her head, like those in a young ram.

A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.

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