Ritual Gallery

Slave couple marrying by jumping over a broom

Broomstick wedding ceremony of African-American slaves, from an eyewitness before the Civil War.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Ancient Roman haruspex sacrifice

Roman haruspex ceremony, foreseeing the future by viewing the entrails of a sacrificial animal.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Buffalo Dance performed by a Zuni Pueblo Red-tailed Hawk Dancer at the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonials, New Mexico.
Digital photograph

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