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  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • A child with plugs in holes in his earlobes - to gradually increase the size, for ornamental purposes. Halftone after a photograph by J.W. Beattie.
  • Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.
  • A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.