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  • Young native girl of Siam holding a cigar
  • Doctor from one of the Australian tribes
  • Zulu women bringing beer to a wedding dance
  • Gut Enema, Eskimo. Exhibit, Hall of Primitive Medicine
  • Native mats, spears, shield and fishing net
  • Platform Tomb of one family, Klemantan, Borneo
  • Hall and McKenney, History of the Indian..., mother and child
  • Zulus wearing penis sheaths, West Africa
  • Sarawak: a wooden carving of Bali Atap, a Tutelary deity. Photograph.
  • All types of clubs from Oceania.
  • Female image on Charm, carved from a piece of coal
  • Fire-making apparatus in Solomon Islands in Edge Partington
  • Sarawak: a Sea Dayak woman. Photograph.
  • Chief of the Uma Poh Kayans, with ears pierced
  • Enemy skulls at the foot of Menhir and attached to bamboo. For Hulton's theories regarding head hunting among the Nagas see J.R.A.I. volume LVIII, 1928.
  • Dyak transference of suffering to inanimate substitutes
  • Zulu girl ready for wedding dance
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of square plaques, decorated.
  • Swaziland: two young men seated, one of them smoking hemp
  • Fire making set, Ongmagsalik Eskimo in E. Greenland
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show their heads.
  • Bai Sharen couple on a hunting and fishing trip.
  • A Kenyan house fenced in for protection against enemies. The Baran and Batang Kenyan tribes.
  • Woodens clubs, including two throwing clubs, from Figi
  • Kenyan dart-poison including scoring upas trees etc.
  • Bomvana Abakweta, Bomvanalang
  • Diviner, Nupe, N. Nigeria, West Africa
  • Pipe, argillite shale, very fine carving with intricately interlacing totemic figures of animals and supernatural creatures. Collected by the late Mr. George Roberts of Hudson's bay company. Haida Indians, North West Coast of America, Queen Charlotte Islands.
  • Tsimalotos Women: Madagascar showing styles of hair-dressing
  • Sarawak: a Ukit tribesman. Photograph.