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A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.
Fairclough, T. Lindsay.Reference: 21348i
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South Africa: a Zulu medicine man. Photograph by L. Cipriani.
Cipriani, Lidio, 1894-1962.Date: 1930-1939Reference: 579669i
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A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.
Reference: 21322i
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A Native American medicine man. Oil painting.
Reference: 45178i
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Siberia: a Tungus medicine man in ceremonial dress, standing holding a drum. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.
Czaplicka, Marie Antoinette, 1884-1921.Date: 1914-1915Reference: 581376i
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An Aboriginal medicine man or shaman from the Kakadu tribe sucking the illness from a patient. Process print after B. Spencer, 1914.
Spencer, Baldwin, 1860-1929.Date: 1914Reference: 21343i
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Der Medizinmann bei den Naturvölkern / [Hans Schadewaldt].
Schadewaldt, Hans, 1923-2009.Date: [1968]
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Yellowhead, a native North American man aged 40. Colour pastel drawing by W. Langdon Kihn, 1920.
Kihn, W. Langdon.Date: 1920Reference: 21181i
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A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
Reference: 21428i
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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.
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611.Date: [1592]Reference: 34297i
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The price of a gift : a Lakota healer's story / Gerald Mohatt & Joseph Eagle Elk.
Mohatt, Gerald Vincent.Date: [2000], ©2000
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A shaman of Kamchatka, Russia. Coloured etching.
Date: [1811]Reference: 47039i
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Siberia: a Tungus medicine man in ceremonial dress, seated holding a drum. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.
Czaplicka, Marie Antoinette, 1884-1921.Date: 1914-1915Reference: 581375i
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An Ahtena Indian medicine man of Alaska. Coloured photograph, ca. 1913.
Date: 1900-1999Reference: 677859i
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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: 21325i
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An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 21353i
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A Blackfoot Indian medicine man. Coloured photograph, ca. 1913.
Date: 1900-1999Reference: 677847i
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Shamans in Asia / edited by Clark Chilson and Peter Knecht.
Date: 2003
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A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
Reference: 21329i
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A shaman banging a drum and dancing invoke spirits to cure a sick man. Engraving by S. Davenport.
Reference: 21409i
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A South African medicine man or shaman. Colour process print after a photograph by G.W. Wilson.
Wilson, G. W.Reference: 21404i
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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. Halftone.
Reference: 21338i
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A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
Buchta, Richard.Reference: 21388i
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A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
Buchta, Richard.Reference: 21321i
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A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
Reference: 21410i