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  • Fire-stick, Fiji in Edge Partington
  • Fire-stick from New Zealand in Edge Partington
  • Female image on Charm, carved from a piece of coal
  • Fire-making apparatus in Solomon Islands in Edge Partington
  • Illustration of Fire-making in N.S.W. Aboriginal. Photograph taken by Kenny of Sydney
  • Fire-stick Jones Strait's Islands in Edge Partington
  • Fire-stick from Hawaiian Islands in Edge Partington
  • Native Sudanese splints applied to forearm from Medical Practices and Superstitions among the people of Kordafan
  • An American Indian medicine man attending a sick child
  • Diaper (Fafafafine), plaited straw, Vaitupu, Ellice Islands, Western Pacific. Presented by Dr. D. G. Kennedy
  • Melville island man and a larakia woman
  • Enemy skulls at the foot of Menhir and attached to bamboo. For Hulton's theories regarding head hunting among the Nagas see J.R.A.I. volume LVIII, 1928.
  • Swaziland: two young men seated, one of them smoking hemp
  • Amuletic necklace, Bear claws and red trade beads.
  • White River Apache Medicine Man and other images.
  • A Pueblo Medicine man with rattle made from a gourd
  • A Medicine man, Schwarzfuss-Indianer, after Catlin
  • Curing ceremony among the Iroquois people. From photographs by the Buffalo Museum of Science, U.S.A.
  • Sea Dayak woman in The Pagan Tribes of Borneo
  • Medicine man and patient: the parts affected are rubbed.
  • The scarifacation instruments, Indigenous American
  • Chief of the Uma Poh Kayans, with ears pierced
  • Sixty centuries of health and physick.
  • Amasamang, Ghana: Semanu, a medicine man, and his two assistants, all wearing white robes, standing beside a sign advertising his services. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.
  • Tiarella 'Pinwheel'
  • For bacterial infections Septrin : an advance on the antibiotics.
  • For bacterial infections Septrin : an advance on the antibiotics.
  • For bacterial infections Septrin : an advance on the antibiotics.
  • For bacterial infections Septrin : an advance on the antibiotics.
  • Iloffa, Nigeria: a Yoruba girl selling dried rats and mice for medicinal use, from a basket in the marketplace. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.