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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.
  • Effigy, Nigeria, Anua Uyo district.
  • Kwanyama mother giving enema to her baby boy.
  • Sea Dayaks, male and female figures showing types of dress
  • Map of the world showing distribution of "Primitive Peoples".
  • Kwanyama mother giving enema to her baby boy.
  • Old grindstone with rainstones at grave of Jada.
  • Scarified Munshi women, Katsina Ala, Nigeria.
  • A nail effigy, Congo, West Africa.
  • The scarifacation instruments, Indigenous American
  • 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
  • Pointing stick used by Australian Aboriginals.
  • Spirit-scaring effigy (Kareau), Nicobar Islands. Male
  • Shaped piece of wood for distending the lower lip.
  • Illustration of Fire Piston used for making fire
  • Sacrificial poles outside a Kenyan village. Right: Belawing pole, altar post of Babi on which enemy heads are hung. Left: Penyalong. Middle: A post to which pieces of the flesh of slain enemies have been skewered as offerings to the onem birds in this case, hawks. From the Hose album.
  • Woven mat, strips joined by bands in colour, Zaire.
  • Extended ear lobe, Rubriand, Solomon Islands.
  • Bronze Benin head, Nigeria
  • Knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaitish people, Australia.
  • Illustrations of Acatrigatun cicatrization designs, Australia?
  • Combs, of various origins.
  • Woven grass mat with stripes in colours, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.
  • Fourteen African statues, effegies
  • A Lirong girl with ears pierced and stretched.