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  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Short hair, necklet and ear pendants of coix seeds. Lips sewn together, no threads hanging.
  • Fighting Adze Toki, Greenstone blade and carved handle. Maori, New Zeland. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
  • Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.
  • Canoe-head mask, New Guinea.
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears
  • Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.
  • The interior of a house on the island of Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada, with some of its inhabitants encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Consultation Figures, Southern Nigeria
  • Head mask. Yuruba, Southern Nigeria, W.Africa
  • Two Mallieolo figures.
  • Marionnete representing mother and child, Nigeria, W.Africa. Used in a magic play.
  • Medicine man's bag, jackal's skin, with head in situ. Uganda
  • An Aku Mma doll.y. Ashanti, Ghana, West Africa.
  • Robert Burton. Line engraving by J. Basire, 1800.
  • Exhibition: Primitive Medicine.
  • George Jones of London : Student in the Art of Physick and Chyrurgery for about Thirty years, is now resident at his house in Hatton-Garden, where he hath lived for above seven years : His Friendly Pills: they are the true tincture of the sun ... / George Jones.
  • George Jones of London : Student in the Art of Physick and Chyrurgery for about Thirty years, is now resident at his house in Hatton-Garden, where he hath lived for above seven years : His Friendly Pills: they are the true tincture of the sun ... / George Jones.
  • George Jones of London : Student in the Art of Physick and Chyrurgery for about Thirty years, is now resident at his house in Hatton-Garden, where he hath lived for above seven years : His Friendly Pills: they are the true tincture of the sun ... / George Jones.
  • George Jones of London : Student in the Art of Physick and Chyrurgery for about Thirty years, is now resident at his house in Hatton-Garden, where he hath lived for above seven years : His Friendly Pills: they are the true tincture of the sun ... / George Jones.
  • A man, head and shoulders, designated as Lucas van Leyden. Pen and ink drawing after Albrecht Dürer.
  • Sir Thomas Browne. Engraving attributed to T. Cross, 1669.
  • John Greaves. Etching by E. Mascall, 1650.
  • John Pordage. Line engraving, ca. 1795, after W. Faithorne, 1683.
  • The School of Athens: a key to the figures in the centre of the composition. Engraving by G. Volpato, after Raphael.
  • John Anthony. Line engraving by T. Cross, 1656.
  • Jan van Gorp. Line engraving.
  • Sir Thomas Browne. Line engraving by F. van Hove, 1672.
  • Sir Thomas Browne. Line engraving by F. van Hove, 1672.
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine, figures
  • Saint Francis of Sales kneeling; angels and cherubim emerging from the clouds. Engraving by L. Visscher after C. Maratta.