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  • Woven mat design in colours, Zaire, ExPareyn Collection.
  • Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease.
  • Head hunters' hut, New Guinea. WHMM
  • Piece of stone with channel all around for distending ear.
  • Child learning to walk, child in baby carrier, South America
  • Illustrations of tattoo assumed by homicide.
  • Parts of 3 woven grass mats, patterned and plain.
  • Child in cradle or carrier with contrivance for applying lateral pressure to the skull.
  • A lesson in spinning string, Central Australia.
  • Kwanyama mother giving enema to her baby boy.
  • A shrunken head
  • Divination board of wood decorated with 2 human heads.
  • Stone knife, Australian Aboriginal.
  • Woven grass mat, stripes with colours, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.
  • Female ancestral effigy, Middle Sepik River area, New Guinea.
  • Sixteen African statues, effegies
  • Headrest, New Guinea.
  • Curing ceremony among the Iroquois people. From photographs by the Buffalo Museum of Science, U.S.A.
  • Sickness boat, Lanchang, Milano Sarawak
  • Sara woman with duck-bill modification of the lips.
  • Sea Dayaks, female figure wearing spiral corsets decorated with medals
  • Two Mallieolo figures.
  • Five African statues, effegies including, top right, an anthropomorphic face surrounded by three horn-like structures, Ekoi [?], Nigeria
  • Married islander's house with ground-plan and elevation.
  • Waist constriction by cane belts, Konyak Naga
  • 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.
  • Elongation of the head, Mowe, N. Britain
  • Sacred anthropomorphic figure, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
  • Anthropomorphic flute ornament - male effigy, New Guinea.
  • Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.