Gallery

Medicine man

Indigenous healers have often been reduced to stereotypes in popular media, particularly through the outdated term "medicine man". Behind these oversimplified portrayals lies a rich tradition of healing knowledge, spiritual wisdom, and cultural practices - each unique to its community and deserving of proper recognition.

Museon-Omniversum

Zandschilderij op spaanplaat met gekleurd zand, en gemalen rotsgesteente. Afgebeeld is een menselijk figuur. Hij stelt de dansende gemaskerde Navajo medicijnman Yei-Bei-Choe voor, die 3-5-9 dagen danst tijdens ceremonien.

International Institute of Social History
Heidelberg University Library

Nachlass von Ernst Wahle (1889-1981), Dt. Archäologie, Prof. in Heidelberg (Provenienz)

Ethnological Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Ethnological Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Toy Museum of the City of Nuremberg

Indianer & Indianerin : Squaw & Indianerbaby & Köchin & Medizinmann & Tänzer : Indianerdorf & Lagerfeuer : Kochstelle & Bratspieß & Trommler & Häuptling & Kanufahrer; 9 Massefiguren und 1 Masseobjekt, Marke Elastoli…

Architecture Museum at Technical University of Munich

The conditions of use of the Museum of Architecture at the Technical University of Munich apply. (Comment)

Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Ubb. 44. Ein Medizinmann der Maiduguri, phot. E.L. Temple.

Museum of World Culture
Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Abteilung Hochschule und Forschung
World Museum Vienna

Caption: inscription: printed back: Colored Cabinets of Noted Indians Photographed and Published by F. Jay Haynes, St. Paul, Minn.

Wellcome Collection

Photograph of a Medicine man, Hausa, West Africa. Presented by Dr. Nadel, June 1937.

Wellcome Collection

Portrait of Jose Saiow, Laguna Pueblo medicine-man

Wellcome Collection

Lettering: A medicine man, Navajo. P.12. Curtis. Copyright 1904 by E.S. Curtis x168.; 'A medicine man, Navajo'

Ethnological Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Medicine man of the Navajo tribe, Coolidge, N.M., (Arizona) ; gift from Malvina Hoffman, 25 Villa Chauvelot, Paris, XV, for H.S. Wellcome ; Jan. 1937. Bears accession number: PHO 9201. Lettering on photograph verso in ink and pencil almost cert…

Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture
Museum of World Culture

Arhuaco People; EM:0758.0379; ica

Museum of Ethnography

0186.0015; 1927; Manker, Ernst (1932) Niombo. Die Totenbestattung der Babwende (pp. 159-172). Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 64. Jahrg., H. 4/6; …

Museum of Ethnography

0759.0048; seraculeh; sarakole; …

Museum of Ethnography

0160.0006; Female witchdoctor.; Zuluer, kvinnotyper, "trollkvinnor".

Finnish Heritage Agency

fyysinen kuvaus: Pääluettelo: Celebes, Bora. Talipoehoe. Huvudbonad för kailiernas medicinmän eller rättare överstepräster - tobajasa. Dragas på tvären på huvudet. Framsidan ornamenterad. Tre tofsar av hönsfjädrar instuckna i kullens mitt, en slags gradbe…

Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Ubb. 128. Ein Zauberdoktor vom Ntumbasee. Phot. Joseph C ...

Wellcome Collection

Gallery of primitive medicine, 1946. Section showing Medicine Man's costume and equipment.

Deutsche Fotothek

Berlin: Intergraphik 1973, No. 522 (publication)

Wellcome Collection

Lettering: A Zulu lady doctor of renown, practising in Basutoland. Photograph by T. Lindsay Fairclough.