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  • Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.
  • Snow knife, bow-drill, Innuit
  • Seventeen African statues, effegies, including mask, top left, from Nigeria
  • Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease
  • Twenty two African statues, effegies
  • Ancestoral effigy with long proboscis, New Guinea.
  • Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.
  • Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease.
  • Dyak transference of suffering to inanimate substitutes
  • Steam bath to drive out sickness, Orokaiva Papua, New Guinea.
  • Grotesque human figure carved in ivory, Belgian Congo.
  • Fighting Adze Toki, Greenstone blade and carved handle. Maori, New Zeland. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
  • Ancestral anthropomorphic effigy, New Guinea.
  • Divinatory effigy used by the Yarsi for prognosis of disease.
  • Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.
  • Canoe-head mask, New Guinea.
  • Child learning to walk, child in baby carrier, South America
  • Child in cradle or carrier with contrivance for applying lateral pressure to the skull.
  • A lesson in spinning string, Central Australia.
  • Female effigy, Simbo Island, Solomon Islands. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
  • Anthropomorphic effigy, Trobriand Islands, Western Pacific.
  • Portable cradle metwork, Hall Sound, New Guinea
  • House-post figure, anthropomorphic effigy, Solomon Islands.
  • Yoruba Ibedji (effigies) representing dead twins, Nigeria, West Africa. Some Yoruba tribes revere twins, who are thought to bring luck to household and tribe. The death of one is a great calamity. A wooden figure, called Ibedji, is made to house the spirit of the dead child and be a companion for the surviving twin. The Ibedji figure becomes a cult-object in the family and the mother tends it, offers it food and decks it with beads, cowrie shells, red camwood and other adornments.
  • A stone containing spirit-children.
  • Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.
  • Illustration of a complete set of divining bones.
  • Rite of garden magic, from Argonauts of the Western Pacific
  • Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening
  • Kirikoraha ceremony. The shaman tracking the Sambar (henebedda). The shaman shoots the sambar (henebedda).