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  • A Navajo medicine man. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A Native American medicine man. Oil painting.
  • A Blackfoot Indian medicine man. Coloured photograph, ca. 1913.
  • A Navajo medicine man. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • An Ahtena Indian medicine man of Alaska. Coloured photograph, ca. 1913.
  • A machi, or medicine woman, Araucania, Chile.
  • China: a chair equipped with blades for performances by mediums (tangki). Photograph, 19--.
  • Yellowhead, a native North American man aged 40. Colour pastel drawing by W. Langdon Kihn, 1920.
  • 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.
  • Albert Mad Plume, a North American medicine man. Coloured pastel drawing by W. Langdon Kihn, 1926.
  • Three native North American medicine men dressed in elaborate ritual masks and costumes. Wood engraving.
  • 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.
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • Shaman/medicine man, body paint, Australia
  • Pre-Columbian female skull from Amazonas, Peru.
  • Pre Columbian female skull from Peru.
  • Illustration depicting prehistoric surgical operation.
  • Carved and painted wooden mask.