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  • A machi, or medicine woman, Araucania, Chile.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • Yellowhead, a native North American man aged 40. Colour pastel drawing by W. Langdon Kihn, 1920.
  • A South African medicine man or shaman. Colour process print after a photograph by G.W. Wilson.
  • Siberia: a Tungus medicine man in ceremonial dress, standing holding a drum. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.
  • An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
  • A Blackfoot Indian medicine man. Coloured photograph, ca. 1913.
  • Albert Mad Plume, a North American medicine man. Coloured pastel drawing by W. Langdon Kihn, 1926.
  • Gran Chaco, South America: a medicine man of the Lengua Indians. Coloured photograph, ca. 1913.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.
  • A shaman with drum and in full costume. Process print.
  • A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.
  • Albert Mad Plume, a North American medicine man. Coloured pastel drawing by W. Langdon Kihn, 1926.
  • A Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.
  • A native North American shaman or medicine man healing a patient. Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after Captain Eastman.
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • A Navajo medicine man. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
  • A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving.
  • A Mrua medicine man or shaman with his assistants, Central Africa. Coloured wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Halftone.
  • Siberia: a Tungus medicine man in ceremonial dress, seated holding a drum. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.