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  • A native North American shaman or medicine man healing a patient. Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after Captain Eastman.
  • A Mrua medicine man or shaman with his assistants, Central Africa. Coloured wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.
  • A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.
  • A shaman banging a drum and dancing invoke spirits to cure a sick man. Engraving by S. Davenport.
  • 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 banging a drum and dancing to invoke spirits to cure a sick man. Engraving by S. Davenport.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
  • Mexico: a Mayan shaman or medicine man performing bloodletting on a patient seated on a fallen tree. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • An Aboriginal medicine man or shaman from the Kakadu tribe sucking the illness from a patient. Process print after B. Spencer, 1914.
  • A Saadi, or Egyptian shaman using snakes and incantations to cure a sick man. Engraving by T. Wallis, 1806, after W.M. Craig.
  • An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • The prophecy of Masuka: an African medicine man or shaman of the Nkose watching the future in a bowl. Painting by Stanley Wood, 1894.
  • Minusinsk, Siberia: a Tartar medicine man or shaman in ceremonial dress with a covered face, holding a drum. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph, 1900/1915.
  • Brazil: Tupinamba Indian shamans (caraibes) wearing feather head-dresses surrounded by men dancing in a circle. Engraving by T. de Bry after J. de Léry, 1592.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Halftone.
  • Haida, Spirit mask of Shaman, carved wood. Human features with a removable bird's beak. Painted white, black, red, yellow and green. N.W. Coast of America, Queen Charlotte Islands, Brit. Columbia.
  • Shaman's charm of bone carved in Totemic British Columbia. North West Coast of America. Designs representing the Octopus and anthropoozomorphic bird. Abalone inlays in eyes. Hole pierced at top for pendant.
  • Soul catcher, bone magic Soul Case. Eskimo. Used by the Shaman to retrieve a lost soul, or to contain the soul of a departed relative. Engraved in conventional design. Hollow bone, covered at one end with wooden plug.
  • Siberia: an Ostiak medicine man wearing animal skins, holding a shield: studio portrait: front view. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.
  • Siberia: an Ostiak medicine man wearing animal skins and with a shield: studio portrait: side view. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.
  • Siberia: a Tungus medicine man in ceremonial dress, seated holding a drum. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.
  • Siberia: a Tungus medicine man in ceremonial dress, standing holding a drum. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.
  • A Navajo medicine man. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A Native American medicine man. Oil painting.