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  • Ganesha, along with five other priests and deities or Kings (?), one beheaded, performs a yagna, a fire sacrifice, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A four armed deity (?) sitting with five priests and five other deities or kings (?) performing a yagna, a fire sacrifice, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, etc / By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.
  • European priest carrying a book and holding a rosary. At the top of the page is written Faranswa-e Pariz (Francois, the Parisian). Under the minature is writen Hakim Murtaza Husayn, probably the priests Persian name. The front of a double-sided qit'a, a piece or selection or fragment of poetry or prose mounted and given as gifts or used as wall decorations
  • Brahman priest and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Anterior aspect of the mummy of a priest.
  • An Indian Muslim priest; left, his wife. Gouache painting.
  • Hong Kong: a mendicant priest. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Hong Kong: a mendicant priest. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Percival Lowell. Reproduction of pastel drawing after N. Priest, 1910.
  • A priest pronouncing a benediction on a dead child. Lithograph, 18--.
  • A priest exorcist, with two men playing cymbals and drums. Gouache painting.
  • A priest blowing a conch shell. Watercolour painting by an Indian artist.
  • A Muslim priest holding prayer beads. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A Hindu priest offering a young woman some holy beads. Gouache drawing.
  • A priest administering extreme unction to a dying nun. Colour stipple engraving.
  • A priest gives a dying man his last rites. Coloured woodcut, 1493.
  • Christ beaten and mocked before the High Priest Caiaphas. Etching by Jacques Callot.
  • Pott's disease in a mummy of a priest of Ammon, 21st Dynasty
  • A pandit (Indian priest) holding prayer beads. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A woman confessing to a priest. Engraving by H. Austen after J. Herbert.
  • The dance of death: the parish priest. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.
  • The high priest questions Jesus after his arrest. Engraving by G. Huret after himself.
  • A baptism being administered by a priest in a church. Etching by B. Picart.
  • A priest administering the Eucharist to a dying man. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • Christ brought before the high priest Caiaphas. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • Abyssinia (Ethiopia): animals and indigenous people, including an Abyssinian priest, Adael and Shoho warriors. Lithograph.
  • Abyssinia (Ethiopia): animals and indigenous people, including an Abyssinian priest, Adael and Shoho warriors. Lithograph.
  • Above, a dagger is thrown in the direction of a priest on a platform; below, monks pointing at and showing signs of distress at the sight of a cat hanged in a priest's habit. Engraving with etching, 1812.
  • A sick mother has her pulse taken by a priest while her children look concerned. Mezzotint.