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Science, magic and religion : the ritual processes of museum magic / edited by Mary Bouquet and Nuno Porto.
Date: 2006
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Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
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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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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
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Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
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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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Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
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A herb dealer justifies the price of his herbs to an alchemist sitting at a desk. Pen drawing by G. Morrow, 1909.
Morrow, George, 1869-1955.Date: 1909Reference: 37923i
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Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
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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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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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A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
Reference: 21344i
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Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.
Reference: 21487i
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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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The circumcision of Christ.
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Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
Pictures
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A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.
Reference: 21394i
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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.
Chartran, Théobald, 1849-1907.Date: 1889Reference: 22690i
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Sinhalese devil-dancers. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
Hardy, Norman H.Reference: 3198597i
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Limestone human-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 represent Imsety, one of the four sons of Horus, and is the guardian for the liver.
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A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
Reference: 21429i
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Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400
Books
The archaeology of ritual and magic / Ralph Merrifield.
Merrifield, Ralph.Date: 1987
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An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
Nordenskiöld, E.Reference: 21377i
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The elementary forms of the religious life / Emile Durkheim ; translated from the French by Joseph Ward Swain.
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.Date: [1961]