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Indigenous non-European medicine

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  • Fighting Adze Toki, Greenstone blade and carved handle. Maori, New Zeland. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
  • Human control of non-natural agency, Africa.
  • Map of the world showing distribution of "Primitive Peoples".
  • Kwanyama mother giving enema to her baby boy.
  • Australian aboriginal stone knife mounted in handle.
  • Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman in causation of illness.
  • Parts of 3 woven grass mats, patterned.
  • Effigy used in curing sick children, prob. Ibibio, Nigeria, W.Africa. These effigies were set out by the mother and appropriate sacrifices offered at a place indicated by the medicine-man.
  • Ten African statues, effegies
  • Spirit-scaring effigy (Kareau), Nicobar Islands. Male
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    Child learning to walk, child in baby carrier, South America

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    Administration of an enema, Ivory Coast, Africa. From a photograph in the possession of Dr. Bockbank.

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    Snow knife, bow-drill, Innuit

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    Combs, of various origins.

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    Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa.

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