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Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.

Parts of 3 woven grass mats, patterned.

Child in cradle or carrier with contrivance for applying lateral pressure to the skull.

Sixteen African statues, effegies

Effigy of a Shaman from Haida Tribe, late 19th century.

Wooden head beaker, Congo, Africa.

Stone knife, Australian Aboriginal.

Seat supported by standing figures and elephant heads, the back of leopards, with 2 figures riding leopards as side supports. Grasslands, possibly Bali, Cameroons, West Africa.

Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease.

Female effigy, Simbo Island, Solomon Islands. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.

Woven grass mat with stripes in colours, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.

Human control of non-natural agency, Africa.

Fourteen African statues, effegies

Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.

Shrunken heads.

Letting blood by piercing a patient's arm with an arrow. Indigenous North American.

A lesson in spinning string, Central Australia.

Canoe-head mask, New Guinea.

Ancestral anthropomorphic effigy, New Guinea.

Fighting Adze Toki, Greenstone blade and carved handle. Maori, New Zeland. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.

Knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaitish people, Australia.

Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.

Parts of 5 woven grass mats with knotted fringes, Zaire.

Married islander's house with ground-plan and elevation.

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Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.

Parts of 3 woven grass mats, patterned.

Child in cradle or carrier with contrivance for applying lateral pressure to the skull.

Sixteen African statues, effegies

Effigy of a Shaman from Haida Tribe, late 19th century.

Wooden head beaker, Congo, Africa.

Stone knife, Australian Aboriginal.

Seat supported by standing figures and elephant heads, the back of leopards, with 2 figures riding leopards as side supports. Grasslands, possibly Bali, Cameroons, West Africa.

Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease.

Female effigy, Simbo Island, Solomon Islands. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.

Woven grass mat with stripes in colours, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.

Human control of non-natural agency, Africa.

Fourteen African statues, effegies

Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.

Shrunken heads.

Letting blood by piercing a patient's arm with an arrow. Indigenous North American.

A lesson in spinning string, Central Australia.

Canoe-head mask, New Guinea.

Ancestral anthropomorphic effigy, New Guinea.

Fighting Adze Toki, Greenstone blade and carved handle. Maori, New Zeland. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.

Knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaitish people, Australia.

Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.

Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.

Parts of 5 woven grass mats with knotted fringes, Zaire.

Married islander's house with ground-plan and elevation.

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Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.

Parts of 3 woven grass mats, patterned.

Child in cradle or carrier with contrivance for applying lateral pressure to the skull.

Sixteen African statues, effegies

Effigy of a Shaman from Haida Tribe, late 19th century.

Wooden head beaker, Congo, Africa.

Stone knife, Australian Aboriginal.

Seat supported by standing figures and elephant heads, the back of leopards, with 2 figures riding leopards as side supports. Grasslands, possibly Bali, Cameroons, West Africa.

Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease.

Female effigy, Simbo Island, Solomon Islands. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.

Woven grass mat with stripes in colours, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.

Human control of non-natural agency, Africa.

Fourteen African statues, effegies

Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.

Shrunken heads.

Letting blood by piercing a patient's arm with an arrow. Indigenous North American.

A lesson in spinning string, Central Australia.

Canoe-head mask, New Guinea.

Ancestral anthropomorphic effigy, New Guinea.

Fighting Adze Toki, Greenstone blade and carved handle. Maori, New Zeland. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.

Knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaitish people, Australia.

Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.

Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.

Parts of 5 woven grass mats with knotted fringes, Zaire.

Married islander's house with ground-plan and elevation.