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  • Trepanned skull, New Britain
  • Masked figure of the Kawmot, South Coast of New Britain
  • Mapuche medicine woman treating a patient, South Chile.
  • Navajo sand-painting, negative made from postcard, "All publication rights reserved. Apply to J.R. Willis, Gallup, N.M. Kodaks-Art Goods" (U.S.A.)
  • Obsidian blade mounted in ornamental handle, from Admiralty
  • Woodens clubs from Figi
  • Writing board charm (African?)
  • Images related to Kenyan dart-poison
  • Ge Guoluo (Ge Lolo) family carrying loads. The woman holds a spindle in her hand to indicate that the tribe uses the fibres of the ge plant for spinning, from .
  • Appliance for a fractured forearm, Algeria.
  • Wind charm, figure made of lead painted in red
  • Distillation of fermented Mazes' milk, South Siberia
  • A Bopoto fetish ensuring good health to twins.
  • Pozi (Poren) looking civilized.
  • Amulets of ivory, Belgian Congo, Africa.
  • Melville island man and a larakia woman
  • Woodens clubs from New Ireland & Duke of York Ireland
  • Indian woman doctor, selling medicaments by the roadside
  • Illustration of fire-making, New South Wales
  • The 'tying' cure, Gour tribe, Eastern Bahs-et-Shagal, Sudan
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show their heads.
  • Lama. Two monks of the Lama tribe selling beads.
  • Performing the Mbanbiuma ceremony
  • Illustrations of Acatrigatun cicatrization designs, Australia?
  • Chinese manuscript Yun-nan ying chih Miao-Man t'u ts'e.
  • Kundaite, a witch finder and a Kundaite
  • Trophy skulls lashed to a pole of the 'Potuma', the club house of the men.
  • Trepanned skull, New Britain
  • Fire making by blowing in Methods of Fire making
  • Chinese manuscript Yun-nan ying chih Miao-Man t'u t'se.