M0005268: Rite of garden magic: food offerings left for spirits

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Reproduction of a photograph of religious food offerings left for spirits, described as "Rite of garden magic. An offering of cooked food is exposed to the spirits for some time in the garden". Originally published in <i>Argonauts of the western Pacific : an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea</i> by Bronislaw Malinowski, Routledge & sons, 1922. Photograph acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum courtesy of Fay Cooper Cole.

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M0005268: Rite of garden magic: food offerings left for spirits

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