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  • Four carved ivory amulets, Eskimo.
  • Statuette in walrus ivory of a child, Eskimo.
  • Gut Enema, Eskimo. Exhibit, Hall of Primitive Medicine
  • Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman in causation of illness.
  • Lancet with Greenstone blade and ivory handle, Eskimo. Used for making an incision to insert a labret.
  • Doll, spirit figure, in Ivory, Eskimo. Finely carved facial features. Head perforated through ears, and cotton threaded to represent hair.
  • Soul catcher, bone magic Soul Case. Eskimo. Used by the Shaman to retrieve a lost soul, or to contain the soul of a departed relative. Engraved in conventional design. Hollow bone, covered at one end with wooden plug.
  • Spear thrower as used by the Eskimos and by the Australians.
  • Inuit snow goggles and wooden case
  • Inuit snow goggles and wooden case
  • Inuit snow goggles and wooden case
  • Inuit snow goggles and wooden case
  • Chart, pedigree of colour blindness.
  • Carved and painted wooden mask.
  • Alaska: an Inuit medicine man wearing furs, a mask and oversized model hands, standing on the porch of a wooden building with a sick boy. Photograph, 19--.
  • Artificial deformation, 2 Labrets (lip plugs), 1 lip stud
  • Just arrived from Bullock's Museum, the greatest novelty in Hull : to be seen, at no. 13 Queen-Street, the only two esquimaux indians, ever brought to this kingdom : mal;e and female, from the frozen regions of the North ...
  • Fourteen pipes and smoking accessories from various countries. Wood engraving, ca. 1882.
  • Northern expedition : just arrived from Baffin's Bay, to be seen, at no. 183 Piccadilly (opposite Burlington House,) the only two esquimaux indians, (male and female), brought to England from the frozen regions of the North ...
  • Photo of plaster cast of Cape York native
  • Positively for this night only! : Surrey Theatre. This present Monday, the 12th of May, 1823, will be presented the highly-popular melo drama, taken from the play of the Mountaineers, Octavian, by a professional gentleman ... for this night only will be exhibited the two real esquimaux indians from the frozen regions where Captain Parry is making discoveries ...