A Native American medicine man healing a sick child. Photograph, ca. 1920, after a painting by Valentine Walter Bromley, 1876.

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

Lettering: Healing ceremony in unknown Panama; a Choco Indian medicine man (right) muttering incantations over a sick boy, who is lying beneath a shelter bearing magic symbols. In ...

Breechcloth; probably Yanktonai; 1860-1870Wool, porcupine quills, sinew, metal, horsehair, pigments; 117.5 x 28.5 cm.\RMV 710-9; Herman F.C. ten Kate collection; purchased from tra...

Estonian wrestler and strongman Georg Lurich was a wrestling world champion in the early years of the 20th century, and was the first Estonian to set a world weightlifting record ...

The nineteenth century witnessed the evolution of the nuclear family unit—father, mother, and children—into a nexus of bourgeois social life throughout Europe and North America. In...

Drawing in black ink on thick paper of circus artists mounted on card. From left to right: a man lying on a mat with six tubs on his right foot and a fan in his right hand. Child s...