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Picture of a novice shaman tossing a bowl of milk into the air
January 21, 2022

Novice Shaman

A novice shaman makes an offering of milk to the spirits at her initiation in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. This picture originally appeared in a December 2012 story called "Masters of Ecstasy," about the increasing number of shamans in northeast Asia.
Photograph by Carolyn Drake, Nat Geo Image Collection

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