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the wit of ancient wisdom

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avebury (photo from jon wozencroft's & paul devereux's landscape-perception project)

eskimo medicine man exorcising evil spirits from a sick boy

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agaba / mgbedike masquerade, nigeria, 1946

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the step pyramid, photographed by pascal sebah, circa 1860s

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the endlessly fascinating dogon people

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gemini, from liber locis stellarum fixarum, abd ar-rahman as-sufi, 964

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figures from aboriginal myth

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three-headed figure (sakimatwemtwe), republic of the congo, 19th century

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a kwakiutl ceremonial dancer photographed by edward s. curtis, british columbia,1914

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men with shields, papua new guinea

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abbots bromley horn dance

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from 'the world's great religions' (1958)

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from 'the world of the american indian' (national geographic society, 1974)

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'the tribal eye' by david attenborough (bbc, 1976)

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nomadic sami child

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mask, sangriman, papua new guinea

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manu dibango lp cover (1972)

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tobadzischini - navaho, by edward s. curtis

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njui guicha mask from nigeria

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from an oddfellows lodge, 19th century

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kachina dancer wisdom (comic by jimmy swinnerton)

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ritual & shamanic art (presumably in canada)

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dancing man, japan, 7th century

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edward s. curtis

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1890s photograph from the united kingdom

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women in the shan hills of upper burma: "the women in this part of the world aspire to have a long neck."

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Hand Carved Odd Fellows Gavel

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marathi girls

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a lovely bunch of young morris dancers

buffalo dance, painting by jack hokeah, 1929

avebury, by keith grant, for the cover of shell oil's shilling guide to wiltshire

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statue of wood, museum of giza, photographed by felix bonfils, circa 1875

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mardi gras partygoers dressed as animals

by Nationaal Archief

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found by artist peter cole

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perindens, a magic tree and keeper of the birds, ca. 1220

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yaka masks (congo)

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tibetan prayer-flag with mantra texts

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sorcerer of new guinea, 1955

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Tupilak, Greenland

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caramel cemetary in the vicinity of st. pol de leon - a wonderfully creepy sense of place evoked here

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