Mentawai shaman, keeper of the rain forest
Subtitle: man, nature, and spirits in remote Indonesia
By: photographs and journals by Charles Lindsay ; historical essay by Reimar Schefold.
Contributors: Schefold, Reimar, 1938-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
Subjects: Lindsay, Charles; Mentawai (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs; Shamans -- Indonesia -- Siberut; Siberut (Indonesia) -- Pictorial works
Other titles: Mentawai shaman.
Description: A color portfolio of more than eighty photographs detailing Lindsay's personal interaction with Aman Lau Lau Manai and the community in which he plays a central role, including seldom-observed rituals of tattooing, teeth chiseling, rites of healing and mourning, animal sacrifice, frenetic dance, and trance.
Notes: "An Aperture book".