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  • Judaic rituals and ritual artifacts from the Old Testament. Engraving.
  • A Brahman after his ritual puja. Watercolour drawing.
  • Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: four Dayak men in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
  • A begging Brahman performing a ritual with his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Chinese religious ritual. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • Two yogis, one meditating, the other performing a fire ritual. Gouache drawing.
  • Four priests holding ritual vessels perform 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.
  • An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
  • A Mevlevi, or whirling dervish, performing a ritual mystic dance. Drawing, ca. 1850 (?).
  • Three native North American medicine men dressed in elaborate ritual masks and costumes. Wood engraving.
  • Ceylon, India: a shaman holding a large bow for a divination ritual. Process print, 1910/1930.
  • Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.
  • Padmasambhava as Guru Dragmar: Padmasambhava takes the form of the mystic ritual dagger (phurba). Gouache painting by a Tibetan artist.
  • A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A goat about to be beheaded as a Hindu ritual in honour of the goddess Kālī. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Africa: animal skins and skulls suspended on logs and displayed in a row as part of a religious ritual. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 1940/1960.
  • The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and Athens : Two lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain / by Richard Caton.
  • Four priests perform 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.
  • Thirteen different gods perform 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.
  • Nine female deities (?) 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 figure dressed as half male and half female, holding a fan in one hand and a ritual object in the other. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Fourteen couples with sacrificial vessels perform 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.
  • Vishnu, Brahman and three other deities perform 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.
  • Four priests consult some writings and perform 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 column emerges from the sacrificial fire as eighteen deities perform a yagna, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.