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Parts of 5 woven grass mats, Zaire. ExPareyn Collection.
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Parts of 3 woven grass mats, patterned and plain.
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Parts of 4 woven grass mats, patterned and plain.
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Headrest, New Guinea.
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Male figures with emphasised sexual organs, carved wood. Probably Congo, Africa.
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Letting blood by piercing a patient's arm with an arrow. Indigenous North American.
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'Tight-lacing' in New Guinea. A boy of the Mekeo district who has passed through initiation ceremonies and is of an age to marry.
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Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening
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Prehistoric, rock engraving of man and ostriches.
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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.
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Model of haida Shaman's gravehouse.
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Rain maker preparing his medicine, Kxatla, South Africa
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Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa.
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Effigy to averty spirits of disease. Nicobar Islands.
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Australian aboriginal stone knife mounted in handle.
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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.
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Effigy of a Shaman from Haida Tribe, late 19th century.
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Stone knife, Australian Aboriginal.
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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.
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A woman suckling twins, Lango people.
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Decorated skull, Andaman Islands. The skull and other decorated remains of a dead relative are slung over the back and worn thus during mourning. They are believed to be potent to stop pain and cure disease if applied to the affected part.
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Effigies representing diseases. Sarawak, Borneo.
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A woman suckling two babies.
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Amulet 'for warding off the evils of war and sickness'.
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Rain charms- DOIOM from Expeditions to the Torres Straits