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  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • A shaman singing and beating a drum. Halftone.
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • A Zoroastrian baptism in Persia. Etching after B. Picart.
  • A Hindu ascetic hanging from hooks through his back (called "cetil"). Line engraving, 1791.
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • A Hindu ascetic hanging from hooks through his back (called "cetil"). Line engraving, 1791.
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • Zulu wedding dance
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • 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
  • Limestone human headed canopic jar