Mongolian shamanism includes religious beliefs and practises of shamans who enter trances to communicate with deities and spiritual beings who then possess the shaman's body. Shamans wear costumes and ...

Made from cotton, silk, leather, and feathers, the ensemble is, in fact, an early 20th century Mongolian shaman's costume called Oracle’s Attire. A set of small masks that represent jokers show ...

A shaman, referred to as “Grandfather-Spirit,” wearing a fringed costume and face-covering headdress topped with painted-on eyes, dances in a small hut structure. He emits a throaty growl ...

gentle Mongolian shaman and Maralaa, a young woman who takes him outside his world into the, for him, alien urban world of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital city. First-timer Tergel Bold-Erdene ...

A contestant displays traditional Mongolian dress during a Mongolian costume contest in Manzhouli City, north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, July 4, 2012. A total of 65 delegations ...

Photographs by Ken Hermann There is a special basement room at a clinic in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, where shaman master Bai Aolao goes to contact the spirit world. Enclosed spaces are preferable to ...

The film, which premiered in Venice and is screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, follows the relationship between Ze, a 17-year-old, gentle Mongolian shaman and Maralaa ...