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  • Human control of non-natural agency, Africa.
  • Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.
  • Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman in causation of illness.
  • Effigy used in curing sick children, prob. Ibibio, Nigeria, W.Africa. These effigies were set out by the mother and appropriate sacrifices offered at a place indicated by the medicine-man.
  • Effigy to averty spirits of disease. Nicobar Islands.
  • Effigies representing diseases. Sarawak, Borneo.
  • Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa.
  • Curing ceremony among the Iroquois people. From photographs by the Buffalo Museum of Science, U.S.A.
  • Ancestral effigies, Kafiristan, India. Models of the life-sized figures which are placed outside box graves on hillsides one year after death. Offerings of food, bows and arrows are made to them, and public disasters are attributed to the mishandling of them. The equestrian figures represent males and the seated figures represent females.
  • Cylindrical wooden soum covered with medicine and with four small bags containing power-giving substances. Used for the causation of disease by human agency. Ghana, West Africa.