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  • Wooden head cup, Kasai, Congo, Africa.
  • Baluba effigy, Congo.
  • Parts of 4 woven grass mats, patterned and plain.
  • Woven mat design in colours, Zaire, ExPareyn Collection.
  • Parts of 3 woven grass mats, patterned and plain.
  • Baby carried in a sling. Andaman Islands.
  • Woven grass mat, stripes with colours, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.
  • Headrest, New Guinea.
  • Married islander's house with ground-plan and elevation.
  • Spirit canoe, Alaska. Among the Kwakiutle people of British Columbia it was customary to release a spirit canoe in the water, when a body was buried near a shore, in order to send the soul or spirit of the dead person on its journey.
  • Shrunken heads.
  • Shrunken head compared with normal human skull.
  • Airing the beds, Bougainville, Solomon Islands. The broad planks serve as beds with short lengths of bamboo as pillows.
  • A mother carrying a child.
  • Child carried on mother's shoulders, Central Australia.
  • Parts of 5 woven grass mats with knotted fringes, Zaire.
  • Parts of 5 woven grass mats, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.
  • Shrunken heads.
  • Mortuary hut in graveyard for dying, Nicobar. The dying are removed to this hut to prevent defilement of their dwellings.
  • Woven grass mat, check design in colours, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.
  • Male figures with emphasised sexual organs, carved wood. Probably Congo, Africa.
  • Administration of an enema, Ivory Coast, Africa. From a photograph in the possession of Dr. Bockbank.
  • Rite of garden magic, from Argonauts of the Western Pacific
  • Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening
  • Kirikoraha ceremony. The shaman tracking the Sambar (henebedda). The shaman shoots the sambar (henebedda).
  • Kirikoraha ceremony. The shaman examines the offering of coconut milk (henebedda) racks the sambar (henebedda).
  • '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
  • Prehistoric, rock engraving of man and ostriches.
  • A Tinguian making an offering to the guardian stones. The stones, in which the guardian spirits are supposed to live, are, before certain ceremonies, tied up with bark-like bands and rubbed with oil. Then the blood for a pig is mixed with rice which is scattered before them.