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  • Letting blood by piercing a patient's arm with an arrow. Indigenous North American.
  • Model of haida Shaman's gravehouse.
  • Artificial deformation, 2 Labrets (lip plugs), 1 lip stud
  • Crutch-like wooden flaking-tools used by American Indians
  • Manufacture of Stone implements, North American Indians.
  • Showing a device used by American Indians for holding stones
  • Manden bone tools used in the preparation of stone implements, North Dakota.
  • Manner of striking a stone where the edge is sharp to shew direct percussion.
  • Indirect percussion method practised by Apache Indians
  • Indirect percussion method practised by Wintun Indians of North America in manufacturing stone implements
  • Curing ceremony among the Iroquois people. From photographs by the Buffalo Museum of Science, U.S.A.
  • Amuletic necklace, Bear claws and red trade beads.
  • Three people from different backgrounds of the Northwest Territories of Canada discussing the facts on AIDS; advertisement by Northwest Territories Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease.
  • Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease
  • Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease.
  • A woman in a feathered headdress and carrying a bow, is quelling a dark-skinned man; representing America. Etching by T. Hancock, 1805.