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Africa: a woman with scarification on her chest and arms, and with plugs in her ear-lobes and lower lip. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 19--.

Massawa, Eritrea: two Somali women eating outside; one covers her face to ward off the 'evil eye'. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.

Africa: a man standing over a pot which is supported by the pronged branches of a small tree. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.

Ethiopia: a Gurage woman tattooing another on the wrist. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.

Benin (Dahomey): men holding staffs made of human skulls with plumes of horsehair. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski (?), 19--.

Africa: animal skins and skulls suspended on logs and displayed in a row as part of a religious ritual. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 1940/1960.

Antoiniste cult followers, Liège: a father and two daughters on their way to the Temple of the Antoinistes. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 1920/1940 (?).

Temple of the Antoinistes, Liège: the priest faces a portrait of Father Antoine, entreating him to help heal a sick follower. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 1920/1940.

Temple of the Antoinistes, Liège: the congregation leaving the church. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 1920/1940.

Amasamang, Ghana: Semanu, a medicine man, and his two assistants, all wearing white robes, standing beside a sign advertising his services. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.

Spiritualist healing amongst the congregation of W.T. Parish: his assistants press their hands on a patient to conduct health-giving rays. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, ca. 1940.

W.T. Parish, the Spiritualist healer, performing the laying on of hands on a patient with curvature of the spine. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, ca. 1940.

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Lubinski, Kurt, 1899-1969

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Spiritualist healing amongst the congregation of W.T. Parish: his assistants press their hands on a patient to conduct health-giving rays. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, ca. 1940.

Massawa, Eritrea: two Somali women eating outside; one covers her face to ward off the 'evil eye'. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.

Africa: a man standing over a pot which is supported by the pronged branches of a small tree. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.

Ethiopia: a Gurage woman tattooing another on the wrist. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.

W.T. Parish, the Spiritualist healer, performing the laying on of hands on a patient with curvature of the spine. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, ca. 1940.