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  • Model of haida Shaman's gravehouse.
  • A boy with deep scars on his forehead as a result of surgery, in an attempt to cure epilepsy and headaches, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea). Halftone.
  • Medicine of Aborigenal Peoples in the British Commonwealth Exhibition.
  • Cranial deformation: two skulls of Salish people. Photograph by G.S. Boice.
  • Knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaitish people, Australia.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with a necklace indicating that he has cut off a man's head. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with plugs distorting his ears and a necklace indicating the number of heads he has cut off. Photograph.
  • Australia: an aboriginal woman with a bone through her nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.
  • New Georgia, Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by heavy earrings. Photograph.
  • Australia: an aboriginal man (Ned Woolnah?) with a bone through his nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • A man from Easter island (Rapa Nui), with elongated ears, encountered by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Hall
  • Wellcome museum: primitive medicine, body deformation
  • Wellcome museum: primitive medicine, body deformation
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Three Chinese Ladies, Peking, Penchili province, China.
  • China: three Manchu ladies inside a courtyard, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: three Manchu ladies inside a courtyard, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.