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Child learning to walk, child in baby carrier, South America
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Administration of an enema, Ivory Coast, Africa. From a photograph in the possession of Dr. Bockbank.
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Indigenous people collecting resin or incense.
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Snow knife, bow-drill, Innuit
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Combs, of various origins.
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Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa.
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Divination board of wood decorated with 2 human heads.
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Mortuary hut in graveyard for dying, Nicobar. The dying are removed to this hut to prevent defilement of their dwellings.
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Twenty two African statues, effegies
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Ancestoral effigy with long proboscis, New Guinea.
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Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.
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Shrunken head compared with normal human skull.
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Yoruba Ibedji (effigies) representing dead twins, Nigeria, West Africa. Some Yoruba tribes revere twins, who are thought to bring luck to household and tribe. The death of one is a great calamity. A wooden figure, called Ibedji, is made to house the spirit of the dead child and be a companion for the surviving twin. The Ibedji figure becomes a cult-object in the family and the mother tends it, offers it food and decks it with beads, cowrie shells, red camwood and other adornments.
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Portable cradle metwork, Hall Sound, New Guinea
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Spirit canoe, Alaska. Among the Kwakiutle people of British Columbia it was customary to release a spirit canoe in the water, when a body was buried near a shore, in order to send the soul or spirit of the dead person on its journey.
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Sacred anthropomorphic figure, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
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Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease
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Woven mat, strips joined by bands in colour, Zaire.
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Skull showing cranial elongation, Vanuatu Republic.
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Twelve African statues, effigies
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Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman in causation of illness.
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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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Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.
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Spirit-scaring effigy (Kareau), Nicobar Islands. Male