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  • A Medicine Man, Fika from Customs of the World
  • Ceremonial rattle representing the 'thunder-bird'. Haida, Queen Charlotte Island, British Columbia.
  • Effigy of a shaman, Haida, Queen charlotte Island.
  • Medicine Man wearing a necklet of horns and fur headress
  • Bangongo or Magician, who discovers by divination suitable methods of treatment, Congo.
  • Swazie witch-doctor, smelling out a sorcerer
  • White River Apache Medicine Man and other images.
  • Medicine man's bag, jackal's skin, with head in situ. Uganda
  • Zulu witch doctor dancing, South Africa. Tying cure in which the tie around the chest of a man suffering from pleurisy etc.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.