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  • Zulu male ready for the wedding dance
  • Bride ready for a Zulu wedding dance
  • Zulu women bringing beer to a wedding dance
  • Zulu girl ready for wedding dance
  • Mapuche medicine woman treating a patient, South Chile.
  • Zulu wedding dance
  • Swaziland: two young men seated, one of them smoking hemp
  • Tsimalotos Women: Madagascar showing styles of hair-dressing
  • African divination the "bone thrower" shaking the bones, South Africa
  • Fumigation hole used by Arab women before childbirth
  • Dyak transference of suffering to inanimate substitute, Borneo.
  • Bandage made by pierced lattern-plate, Swaheli
  • Distillation of fermented Mazes' milk, South Siberia
  • Bomvana Abakweta Dancing
  • Salish girl wearing the fir boughs and goat's wool blanket that signify her adolescence
  • Young native girl of Siam holding a cigar
  • Bomvana Abakweta, Bomvanalang
  • Bomvana Abakweta being painted, Bomvanalang
  • Performing the Mbanbiuma ceremony
  • Native Sudanese splints applied to forearm from Medical Practices and Superstitions among the people of Kordafan
  • Shindinu rain shrine, Bari, South Africa
  • Doctor from one of the Australian tribes
  • Platform Tomb of one family, Klemantan, Borneo
  • Antelope Altar, Walpi. The alter in the Antelope Kiva is a mosaic of sand, ceremonially made, in brown, red, white, yellow, green and black. The zigzag lines typifying lightening which brings rain. Around it stand clan emblems, fetishes, priests' jugs and bahos, or paryer-sticks made of two sticks tied together with a bundle of feathers; also bowls of sacred cornmeal and rattles.
  • Yemba Witch Doctress, South Africa
  • Rain charms- DOIOM from Expeditions to the Torres Straits
  • Rain maker preparing his medicine, Kxatla, South Africa
  • Two images of Choco Indians
  • Chaco Doctor from the Chaquenas tribes
  • Tatooing in Abyssinia, two women of the Gurag' Tribe. Blue colouring matter is applied in the form of bracelets and rings to the hand and wrist. A needle or small brush is used.