A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.

1 process print : halftone ; image 13.8 x 8.2 cm

Witch-doctor in his wizard panoply. In Liberia's forest-cloaked interior the witch-doctor and medicine-man weld considerable influences among certain tribes. One of their duties consists in administering poison to suspected evil-doers and giving judgement according to its effects.

Wellcome Collection 21322i