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  • 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
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • A shaman banging a drum and dancing to invoke spirits to cure a sick man. Engraving by S. Davenport.
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • 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
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
  • A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.
  • Sarah is ritually laid to rest in a sepulchral cavern. Wood engraving by Smith after J. Martin.
  • Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • 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
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Four Kenyan shaman or medicine men dressed in ceremonial costume, South east Asia. Halftone.
  • Ambroise Paré using a ligature on an artery of an amputated leg of a soldier, during the Siege of Metz, 1553. Photogravure after T. Chartran, 1889.
  • Three native North American medicine men dressed in elaborate ritual masks and costumes. Wood engraving.
  • Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
  • Tibetan MS 42, leaves from a musical score
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • 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
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • Fertility flower
  • An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
  • Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.
  • Chinese people driving away evil spirits at Malacca, Malaysia. Wood engraving by D. Macpherson, 1891.
  • A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.