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Nkisi Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa. Vehicles of human agency.

Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa.

The Arunta people of central Australia using ungakura pointing apparatus. Full front view.

Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.

Lamina III-

Medico Indiodel Chaco Argentinian con el torax cenido por una faja que impide la huida de los espiritus de la salud (doctor with thorax covered with a corset to prevent the spirits of health from departing)

Argentinian doctor with thorax covered with a corset

Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman expressing belief in spirits who bring misfortune and illness.

Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman in causation of illness.

Effigy to averty spirits of disease. Nicobar Islands.

Curing ceremony among the Iroquois people. From photographs by the Buffalo Museum of Science, U.S.A.

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.

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.

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.

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Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa.

Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.

Argentinian doctor with thorax covered with a corset

Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman in causation of illness.

Effigy to averty spirits of disease. Nicobar Islands.

Curing ceremony among the Iroquois people. From photographs by the Buffalo Museum of Science, U.S.A.

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.

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.

Pointing stick used by Australian Aboriginals.

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Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.

Argentinian doctor with thorax covered with a corset

Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman in causation of illness.

Effigy to averty spirits of disease. Nicobar Islands.

Curing ceremony among the Iroquois people. From photographs by the Buffalo Museum of Science, U.S.A.

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.

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.

Pointing stick used by Australian Aboriginals.

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