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A shaman banging a drum and dancing to invoke spirits to cure a sick man. Engraving by S. Davenport.
Reference: 16899i
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A shaman singing and beating a drum. Halftone.
Reference: 21407i
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An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
Reference: 22171i
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A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
Hardy, Norman H.Reference: 21296i
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A Saadi, or Egyptian shaman using snakes and incantations to cure a sick man. Engraving by T. Wallis, 1806, after W.M. Craig.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: April 1806Reference: 21448i
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Meeting the medicine men : an Englishman's travels among the Navajo / Charles Langley.
Langley, Charles, 1950-Date: 2008
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The northern tribes of central Australia / by Baldwin Spencer ; and F.J. Gillen.
Spencer, Baldwin, 1860-1929.Date: 1904
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A machi, or medicine woman, Araucania, Chile.
Date: [19th century]Reference: 21494i
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A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.
Date: 1873Reference: 21451i
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Die Welt der frühen Jäger, Medizinmänner, Schamanen, Künstler / [Andreas Lommel] ; herausgegeben von Bernard S. Myers und Jehan Thierry.
Lommel, Andreas.Date: (1965)
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A Navajo medicine man. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.Date: 1904Reference: 559250i
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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.
Date: 1900-1915Reference: 581382i
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A native North American shaman or medicine man healing a patient. Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after Captain Eastman.
Eastman, Captain.Reference: 21502i
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A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
Reference: 21378i
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Gran Chaco, South America: a medicine man of the Lengua Indians. Coloured photograph, ca. 1913.
Date: 1900-1999Reference: 677846i
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A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
Reference: 21344i
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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.
Reference: 21381i
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Albert Mad Plume, a North American medicine man. Coloured pastel drawing by W. Langdon Kihn, 1926.
Kihn, W. Langdon.Date: 1926Reference: 21180i
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An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 21359i
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A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
Hardy, Norman HReference: 21311i
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Shaman healer, Dorgut, Mongolia.
De Fraeye, Mark, 1949-
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A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after a photograph attributed to O.S.M. Temple.
Temple, O. (Olive), 1880-1936.Reference: 21395i
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A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
Date: 1910Reference: 21317i
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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.
Czaplicka, Marie Antoinette, 1884-1921.Date: 1914-1915Reference: 581374i
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A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.
Reference: 21394i