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  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.
  • Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening
  • Amulets of ivory, Belgian Congo, Africa.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amulet 'for warding off the evils of war and sickness'.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show their heads.
  • Carved wooden birds of a medicine man, Cameroons, W. Africa.
  • Amulet in the form of a fish, ...Aboriginal peoples.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • Amuletic necklace, Bear claws and red trade beads.
  • 'Tight-lacing' in New Guinea. A boy of the Mekeo district who has passed through initiation ceremonies and is of an age to marry.
  • Prehistoric, rock engraving of man and ostriches.
  • Amuletic necklet, made of bones of relative, Andaman Islands
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • 'Medicine' for smallpox in courtyard of house in Abong
  • Amuletic objects of stone in the form of a hand, Bolivia.
  • Pendant or receptacle, Ancient American
  • Artificial deformation, 2 Labrets (lip plugs), 1 lip stud
  • Terracotta representation of a kneeling peasant, Africa.
  • Amulet, short length of carved ivory, Africa.
  • Terracotta representation of a kneeling peasant, Africa.
  • Amulet 'for warding off the evils of war and sickness'.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of square plaques, decorated.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show their heads.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Terracotta representation of a kneeling peasant, Africa.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.