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  • Amulets associated with childbirth and children. Australia, New Zealand, Ashanti, W. Africa
  • Surgical knives from Samoa, New Guinea, Central Australia,
  • Trephination Instruments
  • Trepanning instruments used by the Arabs of Algeria
  • Neck ornaments, New Zealand
  • Divinatory Skulls: 1Dyke Bay and 2Nias Island
  • Splints from Somaliland, East Africa.
  • Surgical Instruments. Kordo fan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. In The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Collection
  • Man wearing 'Kurdaitcha' equipment. Central Australia.
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Short hair, necklet and ear pendants of coix seeds. Lips sewn together, no threads hanging.
  • Trephined skull from Cuzco
  • Elongated skull for memorial head, face modelled in clay
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears
  • Effigies of Shopono, God of smallpox. Yoruba, Nigeria.
  • Figure of a Haida Shaman, broken legs and starvation
  • Ceremonial rattle representing the 'thunder-bird'. Haida, Queen Charlotte Island, British Columbia.
  • Effigy of a shaman, Haida, Queen charlotte Island.
  • Pattens (2) worn as a protection against Guinea-worm. Africa.
  • Two steatopyous figures said to represent Dahomey pygmies,
  • Wellcome museum, primtive medicine: amulets
  • Consultation Figures, Southern Nigeria
  • Diaper (Fafafafine), plaited straw, Vaitupu, Ellice Islands, Western Pacific. Presented by Dr. D. G. Kennedy
  • Head mask. Yuruba, Southern Nigeria, W.Africa
  • Marionnete representing mother and child, Nigeria, W.Africa. Used in a magic play.
  • Primitive Knife used for Caesarian Section
  • African witch doctor cupping a patient, Wide World photograph
  • Medicine man's bag, jackal's skin, with head in situ. Uganda
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Hall
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, treatment.