Title
Tiny fibre and bone figurines from Hogup Cave
Caption
Tiny fibre and bone figurines from Hogup Cave, They bear magical horns and may have been the embodiments of sickness that shamans pretended to suck from the bodies of their patients in purification rites about 1500 years ago. USA, Desert Culture. c 500 AD. Hogup Cave, Utah.
Info+
Werner Forman Archive/ Utah Museum of Natural History
Credit line
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Reference
UMG12A31_025
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
31,6Mb (1,7Mb) / 11,6in x 10,6in / 3480 x 3176 (300dpi)