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  • Ceremonial head-dress, Tshinshian
  • Ceremonial dance or war dance. Albumen print.
  • Ceremonial rattle representing the 'thunder-bird'. Haida, Queen Charlotte Island, British Columbia.
  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • Australian Aborigine with ceremonial scarrification of the torso and arms
  • Scrotum of an Australian Aborigine who has undergone ceremonial penile subincision
  • Africa: a man (a witchdoctor?) and a woman in ceremonial dress. Photograph, 1920/1930.
  • Uganda: two Ankole medicine men in ceremonial costume. Photograph by John Roscoe, 1919/1920.
  • Four Kenyan shaman or medicine men dressed in ceremonial costume, South east Asia. Halftone.
  • A Piegan man, Iron Breast, in ceremonial dress. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.
  • Sir Isaac Pennington in his ceremonial congregational robes as doctor of physic at Cambridge. Watercolour.
  • A doctor of physic of Oxford in his ceremonial robes, Oxford. Watercolour after T. Uwins.
  • Japan: a samurai (a 'yakonin') in ceremonial dress. Coloured photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1868.
  • A Jicarilla Indian Chief, in ceremonial dress, North America. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • Sir Isaac Pennington in his ceremonial robes as doctor of physic at Cambridge. Coloured pen drawing.
  • A doctor of physic in his ceremonial congregation robes at Oxford. Coloured pen drawing after T. Uwins.
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony: three Navajos in ceremonial dress with faces masked. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony: three Navajos in ceremonial dress with faces masked. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A Chinese talisman of a man and a woman in ceremonial dress. Colour woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • A Navajo man in ceremonial dress representing the Yebichai god Zahabolzi (Zahadolzha?). Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A Navajo man in ceremonial dress representing the Yebichai god Zahabolzi (Zahadolzha?). Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • Africa: a medicine man in ceremonial dress holding a staff and a whisk. Reproduction of a photograph, 1880/1900 (?).
  • A doctor of physic in his ceremonial congregation robes at Oxford. Coloured engraving by J. Agar, 1813, after T. Uwins.
  • A doctor of physic in his ceremonial congregation robes at Oxford. Coloured engraving by J. Agar, 1813, after T. Uwins.
  • Swaziland: a medicine man with two assistants, wearing ceremonial costume including leopard skins and elaborate head-dresses. Photograph, ca. 1930.