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  • 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
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Limestone human headed canopic jar
  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • A Japanese doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Halftone after a photograph by Messrs. Kajima & Suwo.
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • Burial of the dead in the graveyard of a parish church. Etching by James Taylor.
  • 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
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • A shaman banging a drum and dancing invoke spirits to cure a sick man. Engraving by S. Davenport.
  • A shaman singing and beating a drum. Halftone.
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • 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
  • Limestone human-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 represent Imsety, one of the four sons of Horus, and is the guardian for the liver.
  • The circumcision of Christ.
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Limestone human-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 represent Imsety, one of the four sons of Horus, and is the guardian for the liver.