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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
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Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
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A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
Alldridge, T. J.Reference: 21403i
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Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
Digital Images
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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
Digital Images
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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
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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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Fertility flower
Kate Cragoe Mayfield
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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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Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
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'Dance paddle' : Easter Island (Rapa Nui), early-to-mid-19th century : wood (possibly toromiro wood, Mimosa sp.) : On loan from Horniman Museum and Gardens, London.
Wellcome Collection.Date: [2011]
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A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
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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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Tibetan MS 42, leaves from a musical score
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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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Blood expiation in Hittite and biblical ritual : origins, context, and meaning / Yitzhaq Feder.
Feder, Yitzhaq.Date: c2011
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A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
Reference: 21410i
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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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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
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A Japanese doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Halftone after a photograph by Messrs. Kajima & Suwo.
Reference: 21476i
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Chinese people driving away evil spirits at Malacca, Malaysia. Wood engraving by D. Macpherson, 1891.
Date: 12 November 1891Reference: 21439i
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An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
Reference: 22171i
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Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
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Sarah is ritually laid to rest in a sepulchral cavern. Wood engraving by Smith after J. Martin.
Martin, John, 1789-1854.Reference: 15881i