Witch Doctor Collection

Mandan Indians, with Medicine Man in Bear Skin, c1875. The Mandan traditionally lived along the banks of the Missouri River and two of its tributaries, the Heart and the Knife

Native American shaman, 1841. Artist: Myers and Co
Native American shaman, 1841. A print from North American Indians, Wiley and Putnam, 1841

A Mrua Medicine Man and his Train, from a sketch by Lieutenant Cameron in Central Africa, 1876. Creator: Unknown
A Mrua Medicine Man and his Train, from a sketch by Lieutenant Cameron in Central Africa, 1876. The people of Urua, or Kasongo's country, are called Mrua

Costumes de Différents Pays, Ganga Magicien-Medecin de Congo, c1797. Creator: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Ganga Magicien-Medecin de Congo, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Prêtre Médécin de la Californie, c1797. Creator: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Pretre Medecin de la Californie, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Pretre Medicin de la Terre de Feu, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Pretre Medicin de la Terre de Feu, c1797

Un sorcier au Congo francais (Il porte en main l'insigne de ses fonctions... 1914. Creator: Unknown)
'Un sorcier au Congo francais (Il porte en main l'insigne de ses fonctions: une queue d'elephant); L'Ouest Africain, 1914. From "Grande Geographie Bong Illustree", 1914

Old Indian witch doctor, between 1900 and 1930. Creator: Frank G. Carpenter
Old Indian witch doctor, between 1900 and 1930

Slow Bull, 1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Slow Bull, 1907. Photograph shows three-quarter portrait of Slow Bull inside tipi, facing right, sitting in grass holding a pipe

Slow Bull, 1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Slow Bull, 1907. Photograph shows three-quarter portrait of Slow Bull inside tipi on knees, facing front, with buffalo skull and other items nearby

Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho, c1904. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho, c1904. Nesjaja Hatali, medicine man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right

Saliva, Slow Bull (in background), Picket Pin's arm, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Saliva, Slow Bull (in background), Picket Pin's arm, c1907. Three Dakota men, seated or kneeling on ground, one attending to bison skull

Arikara Medicine Ceremony-The Ducks, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Arikara Medicine Ceremony-The Ducks, c1908. Photo shows three Arikara men, members of the medicine fraternity, dancing, painted to represent ducks and holding rushes

Giving the medicine-Navaho, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Giving the medicine-Navaho, c1905. Photograph shows aNavajo shaman giving medicine to participant sitting atop blanket(?) used in sweatbath, as two others look on

Night medicine men, 1908, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Night medicine men, 1908, c1908. Photo shows Arikara medicine ceremony with four night men dancing

Bear rattles, 1908, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Bear rattles, 1908, c1908. Rattles of Arikara bear medicine men

The Eagle Medicine-Man-Apsaroke, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Eagle Medicine-Man-Apsaroke, c1908. Photo shows an Apsaroke shaman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing eagle headdress

Hastobiga, Navaho Medicine Man, c1904. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Hastobiga, Navaho Medicine Man, c1904. Hastobiga, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, looking down

Black Road, 1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Black Road, 1905. Photograph shows Black Road, wearing headdress, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right

A witch-doctor, Uganda, Africa, 1936. Artist: Wide World Photos
A witch-doctor, Uganda, Africa, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

A witch doctor, Belgian Congo (Congo Republic), 1922. Artist: JH Harris
A witch doctor, Belgian Congo (Congo Republic), 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Medicine man of the Worgaia, central Australia, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

The Sorcerer, Medicine Man, or Shaman. Late 19th century design after a Paleolithic or Old Stone Age image on the wall in the Trois Freres cave near St Girons, Ariege, France, created perhaps 2, 500

Iroquois false-face mask which belonged to a member of the False Face Band
North American Indian artifact, belonging to an Iroquois society known as the False-Face Band in which each member had to have seen such a face in a dream. It was used to cure diseases

'A kaffir witch doctor, 1864'. Creator: Unknown
'A kaffir witch doctor, 1864'. Engraving from a photograph sent by Mr. S. D. Mandy. 'The Kaffir tribes of British Kaffraria, as well as those in other parts of South Africa

Geronimo...at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901 Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Geronimo and two other men posed standing, full length at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y. 1901. [Leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people

Prayer to the Great Mystery, (Slow Bull), c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Prayer to the Great Mystery, (Slow Bull), c1907. Slow Bull, squatting, wearing breechcloth, holding pipe with mouthpiece pointing skyward, buffalo skull at his feet

Slow Bull-Ogalala [sic], c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Slow Bull-Ogalala [sic], c1907. Slow Bull, head-and-shoulders portrait, turned left

Incense over a medicine bundle, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Incense over a medicine bundle, c1908. Hidatsa Indian (Yellow Owl?) kneeling and holding bowl over bundle

Sand painting, Wind Doctor's ceremony-Navaho, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Sand painting, Wind Doctor's ceremony-Navaho, c1905

Arikara medicine fraternity-The prayer, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Arikara medicine fraternity-The prayer, c1908. Photo shows Arikara shamans, without shirts, backs to camera, seated in a semi-circle around a sacred cedar tree, tipis in background

The Medicine Man (Slow Bull), c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Medicine Man (Slow Bull), c1907. Slow Bull, full-length portrait, facing front, holding pipe, buffalo skull at his feet

Hu Kalowa Pi, the altar complete, 1907, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Hu Kalowa Pi, the altar complete, 1907, c1907. Three Native Americans, Slow Bull, Saliva, and Picket Pin, kneeling with bison skull

Yeibichai, patient in sweat bath, 1904, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Yeibichai, patient in sweat bath, 1904, c1905. Indian wrapped in blanket with medicine man and another man standing over him

Grinding medicine-Zuni, c1903. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Grinding medicine-Zuni, c1903. Zuni man lying on blanket grinding medicine

Bear's Teeth-Arikara, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Bear's Teeth-Arikara, c1908. Bears Teeth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing headband

A Day with the Medicine Man, n. d. Creator: Philip William May
A Day with the Medicine Man, n.d

Arikara Medicine Ceremony - Dance of the Fraternity, 1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Arikara Medicine Ceremony - Dance of the Fraternity, 1908. [Native Americans in North Dakota]. Photogravure, plate 158 from " The North American Indian, volume 5" (1909)

Arikara Medicine Ceremony - the Ducks, 1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Arikara Medicine Ceremony - the Ducks, 1908. [Native Americans in North Dakota]. Photogravure, plate 163 from " The North American Indian, volume 5" (1909)

Medicine Man, c. 1937. Creator: Yolande Delasser
Medicine Man, c. 1937

Cactus Landscape with Portrait of Geronimo, 1886-1909. Creator: Henry H. Cross
Cactus Landscape with Portrait of Geronimo, 1886-1909

Rainmaking among the Mandan, 1837-1839. Creator: George Catlin
Rainmaking among the Mandan, 1837-1839

Four Arowak Indians, 1854 / 1869. Creator: George Catlin
Four Arowak Indians, 1854/1869. U-hon-da (chief) with medicine man and warrior in of British Guiana. 1852

Three Omagua Men, 1854 / 1869. Creator: George Catlin
Three Omagua Men, 1854/1869. Chief, warrior and medicine man of a fishing tribe south bank of the Amazon, near Nauta. 1853

Four Goo-a-give Indians, 1854 / 1869. Creator: George Catlin
Four Goo-a-give Indians, 1854/1869. Chief with son, O-ho-ko-ra-u-ta (medicine man) and warrior (armed with lance) on the coast of Venezuela, decimated by dissipation and small-pox

A Cheyenne Chief, His Wife, and a Medicine Man, 1861 / 1869. Creator: George Catlin
A Cheyenne Chief, His Wife, and a Medicine Man, 1861/1869. Ne-hee-o-woo-tis (chief) with Loots-a (his wife) and He-wan-e-tax (medicine man and orator) in 1833

Yntah Medicine Man, a Warrior, and a Woman, 1855 / 1869. Creator: George Catlin
Yntah Medicine Man, a Warrior, and a Woman, 1855/1869. Yes-to-ma (in war dress) on the Great Salt Lake. 1855

Lengua Medicine Man with Two Warriors, 1854 / 1869. Creator: George Catlin
Lengua Medicine Man with Two Warriors, 1854/1869. Medicine manw ith lip late on the banks of the Uruguay

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