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  • Headrest, New Guinea.
  • Married islander's house with ground-plan and elevation.
  • 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.
  • Shrunken heads.
  • Shrunken head compared with normal human skull.
  • Airing the beds, Bougainville, Solomon Islands. The broad planks serve as beds with short lengths of bamboo as pillows.
  • A mother carrying a child.
  • Child carried on mother's shoulders, Central Australia.
  • Parts of 5 woven grass mats with knotted fringes, Zaire.
  • Parts of 5 woven grass mats, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.
  • Shrunken heads.
  • Mortuary hut in graveyard for dying, Nicobar. The dying are removed to this hut to prevent defilement of their dwellings.
  • Woven grass mat, check design in colours, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.
  • Male figures with emphasised sexual organs, carved wood. Probably Congo, Africa.
  • Administration of an enema, Ivory Coast, Africa. From a photograph in the possession of Dr. Bockbank.
  • Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening
  • 'Tight-lacing' in New Guinea. A boy of the Mekeo district who has passed through initiation ceremonies and is of an age to marry.
  • Prehistoric, rock engraving of man and ostriches.
  • Model of haida Shaman's gravehouse.
  • Australian aboriginal stone knife mounted in handle.
  • Effigy to averty spirits of disease. Nicobar Islands.
  • 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.
  • A woman suckling two babies.
  • Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa.
  • Stone knife, Australian Aboriginal.
  • 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.
  • 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.