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  • Fire-stick, Fiji in Edge Partington
  • Iron staff surmounted by pellet balls and grotesque figures. African [?]
  • Set of bottles for holding scent or other preparations
  • Toilet of a young girl from Andaman Islands
  • Zulu male ready for the wedding dance
  • The Taboo goblins of Urama Employed by the old men of the clan to keep the village in control, and to guard certain fruits and vegetables for use at festival time.
  • Pattens (2) worn as a protection against Guinea-worm. Africa.
  • Illustration of Iroquois pum-drill for fire-making
  • Customs of the World; illustration of Ifugaos warrior
  • Using the Eskimo cord drill and Eskimo mouth drill, illustration
  • Bangongo or Magician, who discovers by divination suitable methods of treatment, Congo.
  • Bride ready for a Zulu wedding dance
  • Fire-stick from New Zealand in Edge Partington
  • Medicine man and patient: the parts affected are rubbed.
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • Medicine man, Hausa, West Africa
  • Amuletic necklace, Bear claws and red trade beads.
  • Cupit hung across mouth of tributary stream to prohibit all comers from ascending the stream.
  • Bomvana Abakweta Dancing
  • Hei Guoluo (Black Lolo) family, possibly on their way to market.
  • Barber Surgeon with instruments Nupe, N. Nigeria, Dr. Nadel
  • Ornamented skull (front and side views) Kongak Nagas, Assam. Photograph presented July 1937.
  • Woodens clubs from the New Hebrides:
  • Tatooing in Abyssinia, two women of the Gurag' Tribe. Blue colouring matter is applied in the form of bracelets and rings to the hand and wrist. A needle or small brush is used.
  • WMS OR Chinese MS 103
  • Skull of a cave bear(ursus spelaeus), found in a cavern at Nebresima near Trieste; skull now in Museo Civico, Trieste.
  • Sarawak: a Kayan and Sea Dayak tribesman, three Land Dayaks, and a Sea Dayak tribesman and woman. Photographs.
  • Amuletic necklet, made of bones of relative, Andaman Islands
  • Scraper of stone mounted in handle
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion