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  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • 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.
  • A Navajo medicine man. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after a photograph attributed to O.S.M. Temple.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • 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.
  • The prophecy of Masuka: an African medicine man or shaman of the Nkose watching the future in a bowl. Painting by Stanley Wood, 1894.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • An Aboriginal medicine man or shaman from the Kakadu tribe sucking the illness from a patient. Process print after B. Spencer, 1914.
  • 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.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A Binsa sorcerer or shaman, Congo. Halftone.
  • A Native American medicine man. Oil painting.
  • A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.
  • 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.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • A shaman banging a drum and dancing to invoke spirits to cure a sick man. Engraving by S. Davenport.
  • A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.
  • An Ahtena Indian medicine man of Alaska. Coloured photograph, ca. 1913.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.
  • A Saadi, or Egyptian shaman using snakes and incantations to cure a sick man. Engraving by T. Wallis, 1806, after W.M. Craig.
  • Three native North American medicine men dressed in elaborate ritual masks and costumes. Wood engraving.