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  • Trepanned skull, New Britain
  • Writing board charm (African?)
  • Trepanned skull, New Britain
  • A Kenyan house fenced in for protection against enemies. The Baran and Batang Kenyan tribes.
  • An axe-head and figure of an Australian native
  • Iron staff surmounted by pellet balls and grotesque figures. African [?]
  • Native mats, spears, shield and fishing net
  • Zulus wearing penis sheaths, West Africa
  • Skull trophy, Kayan woman dancing with the head of an enemy
  • Skull trophies in a Kayan house
  • Punan's heads taken by Sea Dayaks
  • Obsidian blade mounted in ornamental handle, from Admiralty
  • Scraper of stone mounted in handle
  • Trophy skulls lashed to a pole of the 'Potuma', the club house of the men.
  • The Taboo goblins of Urama Employed by the old men of the clan to keep the village in control, and to guard certain fruits and vegetables for use at festival time.
  • 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
  • The head priestess of Nimm, Ekoi, South Nigeria
  • Nimm neophytes, Ekoi, S.Nigeria
  • Swazie witch-doctor, smelling out a sorcerer
  • Kachin medicine man