The grave was filled with red ochre powder and contained a number of unusual objects, such as a hollow crane bone that ... as a shamanic mask and headdress. The Bad Dürrenberg shaman was one ...

A few years later, the skeleton was put on display in the museum’s permanent exhibition, identified as a female shaman from the Mesolithic period. A leg bone of a crane (top) fashioned into a ...

Knecht believes the mask could have belonged to a Yup'ik shaman. Archaeologists have also discovered household items, such as bowls, as well as jewelry and weapons at the site. Like the mask ...

This mask was made by the Tuscan people and used in ritual dance to symbolise antagonism towards enemies. The mask was collected by Borys Malkin, anthropologist and film maker, who died last year ...

In the first room, a display of masks and objects — from a painted Noh-like face to a wooden goat and a patterned stone — announces that Jonas is as much shape-shifter and shaman as artist and ...

The various animal bones, shells, tusks and antlers could have been strung together as a shamanic mask and headdress. The Bad Dürrenberg shaman was one of the last of the Mesolithic hunter ...