Title
Later Stone Age rock painting interpreted by recent scholars as recording a shamanistic trance dance known as simbo
Caption
Later Stone Age rock painting interpreted by recent scholars as recording a shamanistic trance dance known as simbo, A shaman in trance is depicted with the sensation of bodily elongation and nasal bleeding. The blood was seen as the boiling up of potency and was used in healing. Tanzania. Sandawe. Paleolithic period.
Credit line
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Reference
UMG12A32_026
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No
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33,2Mb (1,4Mb) / 9,2in x 14,0in / 2761 x 4206 (300dpi)