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  • Australian Aborigine with ceremonial scarrification of the torso and arms
  • Scrotum of an Australian Aborigine who has undergone ceremonial penile subincision
  • Two Australian aborigines performing a ceremony with a magical stick to make another person ill. Halftone.
  • Stone knife, Australian Aboriginal.
  • Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.
  • Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.
  • Australian aboriginal stone knife mounted in handle.
  • A barefoot Aboriginal man in a photographic studio.
  • Australia: an Aboriginal woman. Albumen print by Henry King.
  • Amulet in the form of a fish, ...Aboriginal peoples.
  • The Australian aboriginal / by Herbert Basedow ; with 146 illustrations.
  • The Australian aboriginal / by Herbert Basedow ; with 146 illustrations.
  • A young Aboriginal couple in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • An Aboriginal man with a scarification on his shoulder. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • Australia: an aboriginal woman with a bone through her nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • Aboriginal peoples of Formosa engaged in a tribal dance. Painting by a Taiwanese artist from around 1850.
  • Australia: an aboriginal man (Ned Woolnah?) with a bone through his nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • Aboriginal peoples go hunting in a rocky ravine in Formosa. Painting by a Taiwanese artist from around 1850.
  • Female effigy, Simbo Island, Solomon Islands. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
  • Aboriginal peoples of Formosa engaged in hunting deer and ploughing the field. Painting by a Taiwanese artist from around 1850.
  • A snake (Pseudechis australis): held up beneath its head by an Aboriginal man, to demonstrate their similar height, Australia. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • An Aboriginal medicine man or shaman from the Kakadu tribe sucking the illness from a patient. Process print after B. Spencer, 1914.
  • Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commonwealth / with an introduction by E. Ashworth Underwood.
  • Unzie, an albino Aboriginal man with an abundance of white hair. Reproduction by Sedgwick after a photograph by Wendt, late nineteenth century.
  • Fighting Adze Toki, Greenstone blade and carved handle. Maori, New Zeland. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
  • A native American with a warning about the need to protect people against AIDS; advertisement by the Feather of Hope Aboriginal AIDS Prevention Society. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Condoman, a cartoon figure, holds a packet of condoms on a beach; advertising safe sex among indigenous Australians. Colour lithograph by the Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Australia, and the Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland).
  • A feathered circle inside which are several faces of native Americans; advertisement for Urban Aboriginal AIDS Awareness for the National AIDS Strategy supported by Health Canada. Lithograph by Julie Simoa, 1995.
  • Men and women from the 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations, an organization of aboriginal lesbians and gay men who are involved in the fight against AIDS. Lithograph, 1993.
  • A circular crossed plate (?) incorporating indigenous symbols including a feather, a pipe, a polar bear and stones above a pot of flames; advertisement for the Urban Aboriginal AIDS Awareness program for the National AIDS Strategy supported by Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Julie Simoa.