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  • Kirikoraha ceremony. The shaman possessed by Bilindi Yaka promises good hunting (henebedda).
  • Bomvana Abakweta, Bomvanalang
  • Clay figure of Ale in a Mbari shrine, Oratta Ibo
  • Kirikoraha ceremony. The shaman about to spin the pot (henebedda).
  • Bomvana Abakweta being painted, Bomvanalang
  • Model of haida Shaman's gravehouse.
  • A nail effigy, Congo, West Africa.
  • Australian aboriginal stone knife mounted in handle.
  • Pointing stick used by Australian Aboriginals.
  • Effigy to averty spirits of disease. Nicobar Islands.
  • Magical bowl with inscriptions in Mandaic, Mesopotamia.
  • Letting blood by piercing a patient's arm with an arrow. Indigenous North American.
  • A woman suckling twins, Lango people.
  • Effigies representing diseases. Sarawak, Borneo.
  • Customs of the World; illustration of Ifugaos warrior
  • A woman suckling two babies.
  • Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa.
  • Stone knife, Australian Aboriginal.
  • Two Mallieolo figures.
  • Ancestral effigies, Kafiristan, India. Models of the life-sized figures which are placed outside box graves on hillsides one year after death. Offerings of food, bows and arrows are made to them, and public disasters are attributed to the mishandling of them. The equestrian figures represent males and the seated figures represent females.
  • Myanmar (Burma): a Padaung woman wearing neck-rings to lengthen the neck. Process print after a bronze sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, ca. 1933.
  • Effigy of a Shaman from Haida Tribe, late 19th century.
  • Seat supported by standing figures and elephant heads, the back of leopards, with 2 figures riding leopards as side supports. Grasslands, possibly Bali, Cameroons, West Africa.
  • Cylindrical wooden soum covered with medicine and with four small bags containing power-giving substances. Used for the causation of disease by human agency. Ghana, West Africa.
  • Decorated skull, Andaman Islands. The skull and other decorated remains of a dead relative are slung over the back and worn thus during mourning. They are believed to be potent to stop pain and cure disease if applied to the affected part.
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amulet 'for warding off the evils of war and sickness'.
  • Amulet in the form of a fish, ...Aboriginal peoples.