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  • Fighting Adze Toki, Greenstone blade and carved handle. Maori, New Zeland. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
  • Human control of non-natural agency, Africa.
  • Map of the world showing distribution of "Primitive Peoples".
  • Kwanyama mother giving enema to her baby boy.
  • Australian aboriginal stone knife mounted in handle.
  • Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman in causation of illness.
  • Parts of 3 woven grass mats, patterned.
  • 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.
  • Ten African statues, effegies
  • Spirit-scaring effigy (Kareau), Nicobar Islands. Male
  • Woven mat, strips joined by bands in colour, Zaire.
  • Extended ear lobe, Rubriand, Solomon Islands.
  • Bronze Benin head, Nigeria
  • Knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaitish people, Australia.
  • Combs, of various origins.
  • Woven grass mat with stripes in colours, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.
  • Fourteen African statues, effegies
  • Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.
  • Effigy to averty spirits of disease. Nicobar Islands.
  • Ancestral anthropomorphic effigy, New Guinea.
  • Divinatory effigy used by the Yarsi for prognosis of disease.
  • Letting blood by piercing a patient's arm with an arrow. Indigenous North American.
  • An Aku Mma doll.y. Ashanti, Ghana, West Africa.
  • Medicine man curing disease, Australia.
  • Wooden head beaker, Congo, Africa.
  • Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.
  • Canoe-head mask, New Guinea.
  • Three African statues, effegies
  • Effigies representing diseases. Sarawak, Borneo.
  • Wooden head cup, Kasai, Congo, Africa.