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  • Map of the world showing distribution of "Primitive Peoples".
  • Kwanyama mother giving enema to her baby boy.
  • Ten African statues, effegies
  • Bronze Benin head, Nigeria
  • Combs, of various origins.
  • Fourteen African statues, effegies
  • Bloodletting appliances.
  • Medicine man curing disease, Australia.
  • Three African statues, effegies
  • Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease.
  • Kwanyama mother giving enema to her baby boy.
  • Divination board of wood decorated with 2 human heads.
  • Female ancestral effigy, Middle Sepik River area, New Guinea.
  • Sixteen African statues, effegies
  • Five African statues, effegies including, top right, an anthropomorphic face surrounded by three horn-like structures, Ekoi [?], Nigeria
  • Sacred anthropomorphic figure, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
  • Anthropomorphic flute ornament - male effigy, New Guinea.
  • Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.
  • Twelve African statues, effigies
  • Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.
  • Twelve African statues, effegies
  • Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.
  • Snow knife, bow-drill, Innuit
  • Seventeen African statues, effegies, including mask, top left, from Nigeria
  • Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease
  • Twenty two African statues, effegies
  • Ancestoral effigy with long proboscis, New Guinea.
  • Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.
  • Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease.
  • Carved wooden birds of a medicine man, Cameroons, W. Africa.