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  • Photograph of a Medicine man, Atna-Indianer
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.
  • Rite of garden magic, from Argonauts of the Western Pacific
  • Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening
  • A Pueblo Medicine man with rattle made from a gourd
  • A Bopoto fetish ensuring good health to twins.
  • Amulets of ivory, Belgian Congo, Africa.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Indian woman doctor, selling medicaments by the roadside
  • The 'tying' cure, Gour tribe, Eastern Bahs-et-Shagal, Sudan
  • Medicine for fever of smallpox, Ekor Country Medicine creation for fever, Uyanga
  • Amulet 'for warding off the evils of war and sickness'.
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: amulets
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show their heads.
  • Kirikoraha ceremony. The shaman tracking the Sambar (henebedda). The shaman shoots the sambar (henebedda).
  • Carved wooden birds of a medicine man, Cameroons, W. Africa.
  • Amulet in the form of a fish, ...Aboriginal peoples.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Kirikoraha ceremony. The shaman examines the offering of coconut milk (henebedda) racks the sambar (henebedda).
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Medicine man and patient: the parts affected are rubbed.
  • A Medicine man, Schwarzfuss-Indianer, after Catlin
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • Medicine man, Hausa, West Africa
  • A model of an African Medicine man in full costume
  • Amuletic necklace, Bear claws and red trade beads.
  • 'Tight-lacing' in New Guinea. A boy of the Mekeo district who has passed through initiation ceremonies and is of an age to marry.
  • Bomvana Abakweta Dancing
  • Ornamented skull (front and side views) Kongak Nagas, Assam. Photograph presented July 1937.