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Siberia: a Tungus medicine man in ceremonial dress, standing holding a drum. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.
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Siberia: a Tungus medicine man in ceremonial dress, standing holding a drum. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?) of a photograph by Marya Czaplicka, 1914/1915.

Marie Antoinette Czaplicka

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Lettering: The Czaplicka Expedition, 1914-15, standing shaman (Khantaish[?] group), with drum, same man as one seated, shamanizing, from Miss Czaplicka's negative. Bears accession numbers: PHO 4593 / PHO 736. Lettering in pencil on verso.

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