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  • Brazil: Tupinamba Indian shamans (caraibes) wearing feather head-dresses surrounded by men dancing in a circle. Engraving by T. de Bry after J. de Léry, 1592.
  • Shaman's rattle.
  • Model of haida Shaman's gravehouse.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • A Binsa sorcerer or shaman, Congo. Halftone.
  • A shaman singing and beating a drum. Halftone.
  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • Effigy of a shaman, Haida, Queen charlotte Island.
  • A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.
  • Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman in causation of illness.
  • Figure of a Haida Shaman, broken legs and starvation
  • A shaman with drum and in full costume. Process print.
  • A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
  • A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.
  • Effigy of a Shaman from Haida Tribe, late 19th century.
  • A Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
  • Four Kenyan shaman or medicine men dressed in ceremonial costume, South east Asia. Halftone.
  • A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving.
  • Ceylon, India: a shaman holding a large bow for a divination ritual. Process print, 1910/1930.
  • Siberia: tents for shaman's performances. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • A South African medicine man or shaman. Colour process print after a photograph by G.W. Wilson.