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  • A Medicine Man, Fika from Customs of the World
  • Medicine man showing the hole made in his tongue
  • Photograph of a Medicine man, Atna-Indianer
  • Ceremonial rattle representing the 'thunder-bird'. Haida, Queen Charlotte Island, British Columbia.
  • Effigy of a shaman, Haida, Queen charlotte Island.
  • Medicine Man wearing a necklet of horns and fur headress
  • Kafir witches's dance, Africa
  • Bangongo or Magician, who discovers by divination suitable methods of treatment, Congo.
  • Yemba Witch Doctress, South Africa
  • Swazie witch-doctor, smelling out a sorcerer
  • White River Apache Medicine Man and other images.
  • Kachin medicine man
  • Medicine man's bag, jackal's skin, with head in situ. Uganda
  • East African witch doctor
  • A Pueblo Medicine man with rattle made from a gourd
  • Indian woman doctor, selling medicaments by the roadside
  • A Medicine man, Schwarzfuss-Indianer, after Catlin
  • Medicine man, Hausa, West Africa
  • A model of an African Medicine man in full costume
  • Barber Surgeon with instruments Nupe, N. Nigeria, Dr. Nadel
  • Medicine man holding surgery item, by H. V. Meyerowitz
  • Zulu witch doctor dancing, South Africa. Tying cure in which the tie around the chest of a man suffering from pleurisy etc.
  • Witch doctor standing between his two female assistants. This man travels all over W. Africa practising his art. He is holding a broom and a diploma
  • Witch doctor of darkest Africa & his house of fear
  • African medicine man, string knitted suit, black & white mask
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.