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Concept

Ritual

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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.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Ritual healing : magic, ritual and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period / edited by Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett.

    | Date: 2012
    • Books

    Natural symbols : explorations in cosmology / Mary Douglas.

    Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007. | Date: 1996
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    The archetypal actions of ritual : a theory of ritual illustrated by the Jain rite of worship / Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw.

    Humphrey, Caroline. | Date: 1994
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    Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada

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    Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895

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