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  • Limestone jackal-headed canopic jar, used to house removed stomach, liver, lungs and intestines, each organ assigned to a different jar, from a mummified Egyptian body. This jar represents Duamutef, one of the four sons of Horus, and is the guardian of the stomach
  • Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
  • Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
  • 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.
  • Children being bathed at a bath-house in a foundling hospital in Moscow. Engraving by C. Warren, c. 1810, after B. Picart.
  • An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
  • The serpent sacrifice. Chromolithograph.
  • Medicine of Aborigenal Peoples in the British Commonwealth Exhibition.
  • Medicine of Aborigenal Peoples in the British Commonwealth Exhibition.
  • Medicine of Aborigenal Peoples in the British Commonwealth Exhibition.
  • Medicine of Aborigenal Peoples in the British Commonwealth Exhibition.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • A king presiding over a massacre of infants; soldiers pour the blood of the infants into a boiling vat; probably representing the stage of 'putrefaction' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • Chinese people driving away evil spirits at Malacca, Malaysia. Wood engraving by D. Macpherson, 1891.
  • Surrounded by ghoulish apparitions, a manic priest carries an enema towards a wretchedly praying man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, c. 1797.
  • Rama breaks Shiva's bow in order to win the hand of Sita in front of the selection panel. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • A Japanese doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Halftone after a photograph by Messrs. Kajima & Suwo.
  • Shiva waiting for the arrival of his bride Parvati. Chromolithograph.
  • The soul being refined like metal in a crucible by an angel, Satan, Venus and Death; representing a test of faith. Etching by C. Murer, ca. 1600-1614.