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  • Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
  • A shaman with drum and in full costume. Process print.
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.