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This female Orochon shaman had spent a lifetime in the forests of the North Manchurian taiga enclosed by the Amur Bend. The numerous small animal symbols and chains are aids in establishing contact with the spirits, while the oval drum serves to heighten the requisite state of ecstasy during which the spirits inhabit a shaman’s body and his own soul leaves it to roam about the sky

Photo: Lissner - Man, God and Magic

(Source: intuitiveunderstanding, via d-r-o-s-s-deactivated20120610)