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Images

  • Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.
  • A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
All images (7)

Works

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    The customized body / Ted Polhemus ; photography by Housk Randall.

    Polhemus, Ted | Date: 2000
  • view A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
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    A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.

    | Reference: 21428i
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    Body modification / edited by Mike Featherstone.

    | Date: 2000
  • view Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.
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    • Online

    Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 663403i
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    The decorated body / Robert Brain.

    Brain, Robert, 1933- | Date: 1979
All works (13)

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