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Three people from different backgrounds of the Northwest Territories of Canada discussing the facts on AIDS; advertisement by Northwest Territories Health. Colour lithograph.

Date

[between 1900 and 1995]

Reference

668337i

Sorcerers and healing spirits : continuity and change in an aboriginal medical system / Janice Reid.

Date

1983

Colonizing bodies : aboriginal health and healing in British Columbia, 1900-50 / Mary-Ellen Kelm.

Date

[1998], ©1998

Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

Date

1 August 1788

Reference

20137i

The aborigines of Victoria : with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania / compiled from various sources for the government of Victoria by R. Brough Smyth.

Date

1878

Primitive ritual and belief : an anthropological essay / by E.O. James, with an introduction by R.R. Marett.

Date

[1917]

Indigenous peoples : living and working conditions of aboriginal populations in independent countries.

Date

1953

Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.

Date

[1718]

Reference

20216i

The prickly ita palm (Mauritia armata) with a man and smaller palm in the distance. Coloured pencil drawing after C. Goodall, 1846.

Date

1846

Reference

21762i

A group of Aboriginal people in a clearing, many wearing body paint. Photograph, ca.1900.

Reference

541248i

Plants and people : Aboriginal uses of plants on Groote Eylandt / Dulcie Levitt ; illustrated by Ken Lyon.

Date

1981

The health of Australian Aborigines : an annotated bibliography / P.M. Moodie and E.B. Pedersen.

Date

1971

A group of Aboriginal people in a clearing, two or three wearing western clothes. Photograph, ca.1900.

Reference

541245i

A feathered circle inside which are several faces of native Americans; advertisement for Urban Aboriginal AIDS Awareness for the National AIDS Strategy supported by Health Canada. Lithograph by Julie Simoa, 1995.

Date

1985

Reference

668287i

A barefoot Aboriginal man in a photographic studio, in ragged western clothes, holding a cup in his hand and a paper bag under his arm. Photograph, ca.1900.

Reference

541101i

Medizin der Ureinwohner Zentralaustraliens / Axel Kottmann.

Date

1991

M0000047: Piece of stone with channel all around for distending the ear

Date

03 June 1929

Reference

WT/D/1/20/1/2/46

Part of

Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

M0000172: Model of an African medicine man in full costume

Date

19 July 1929

Reference

WT/D/1/20/1/3/44

Part of

Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Havens of refuge : a history of leprosy in Western Australia / W.S. Davidson.

Date

1978

Sorcery and healing : the meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community / by Janice Clare Reid.

Date

1978

Genetic diversity among Australian Aborigines / V. Balakrishnan and L.D. Sanghvi and R.L. Kirk.

Date

1975

Doctor and the aborigines / [Charles Duguid].

Date

[1972]

Prehistoric stress in Australian aborigines : a palaeopathological study of a hunter-gatherer population / Stephen Webb.

Date

1989

Heavy metal : the social meaning of petrol sniffing in Australia / Maggie Brady.

Date

1992

M0000038: Palang (ampallang) beneath a photograph of it in use

Date

03 June 1929

Reference

WT/D/1/20/1/2/37

Part of

Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive