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  • Ancestoral effigy; Solomon Islands
  • Ancestoral effigy; Solomon Islands
  • Ancestral anthropomorphic effigy, New Guinea.
  • Effigy of mother and child
  • Effigy, Nigeria, Anua Uyo district.
  • Effigy, Nigeria, Anua Uyo district.
  • Anthropomorphic effigy, Trobriand Islands, Western Pacific.
  • A nail effigy, Congo, West Africa.
  • Ivory effigy of mother and child
  • House-post figure, anthropomorphic effigy, Solomon Islands.
  • Spirit-scaring effigy (Kareau), Nicobar Islands. Male
  • Ancestoral effigy with long proboscis, New Guinea.
  • Effigy of a shaman, Haida, Queen charlotte Island.
  • Anthropomorphic flute ornament - male effigy, New Guinea.
  • Rahere (above); his tomb effigy (below). Stipple engraving.
  • Effigy to averty spirits of disease. Nicobar Islands.
  • Rahere (above); his tomb effigy (below). Stipple engraving.
  • Female ancestral effigy, Middle Sepik River area, New Guinea.
  • Divinatory effigy used by the Yarsi for prognosis of disease.
  • Effigy of a Shaman from Haida Tribe, late 19th century.
  • Tomb effigy of William Bradbridge, his wife Alice, and their fourteen children. Brass rubbing.
  • Tomb effigy of William Bradbridge, his wife Alice, and their fourteen children. Brass rubbing.
  • The tomb effigy of a man accompanied by nereids, marine centaurs and sea monsters. Engraving.
  • Rahere: his tomb effigy in the Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, London. Drawing by Christopher R. Webb.
  • Female effigy, Simbo Island, Solomon Islands. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
  • Funerary monument to Alice, the daughter of Francis Taylor: her effigy, sleeping. Lithograph by H. Tiffin after F. Taylor, ca. 1845.
  • The tomb of Mary Queen of Scots in Westminster Abbey: stone effigy and numerous heraldic sculptures. Engraving by C. Dubosc after H. Gravelot.
  • A human body is consumed by a furnace; a woman holds a small red limbless effigy bearing a crown; a man holds a sheaf, and another a stick; below, by another furnace, a green and red dragon face each other, poised for combat; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
  • The inside of a hut in a morai, place of burial and worship, in Atooi (Kauai); encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by E. Scott, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears