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

    • Reid, Janice.
    Date
    1983
    • Books
  • Colonizing bodies : aboriginal health and healing in British Columbia, 1900-50 / Mary-Ellen Kelm.

    • Kelm, Mary-Ellen, 1964-
    Date
    [1998], ©1998
    • Books
  • Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

    • Webber, John, 1751-1793.
    Date
    1 August 1788
    Reference
    20137i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 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.

    • Smyth, R. Brough (Robert Brough), 1830-1889.
    Date
    1878
    • Books
    • Online
  • Primitive ritual and belief : an anthropological essay / by E.O. James, with an introduction by R.R. Marett.

    • James, E. O. (Edwin Oliver), 1888-1972.
    Date
    [1917]
    • Books
  • Indigenous peoples : living and working conditions of aboriginal populations in independent countries.

    • International Labour Office.
    Date
    1953
    • Books
  • 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.

    • Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.
    Date
    [1718]
    Reference
    20216i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The prickly ita palm (Mauritia armata) with a man and smaller palm in the distance. Coloured pencil drawing after C. Goodall, 1846.

    • Goodall, C. A.
    Date
    1846
    Reference
    21762i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A group of Aboriginal people in a clearing, many wearing body paint. Photograph, ca.1900.

    • Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957
    Reference
    541248i
    • Pictures
  • Plants and people : Aboriginal uses of plants on Groote Eylandt / Dulcie Levitt ; illustrated by Ken Lyon.

    • Levitt, Dulcie.
    Date
    1981
    • Books
  • The health of Australian Aborigines : an annotated bibliography / P.M. Moodie and E.B. Pedersen.

    • Moodie, Peter M.
    Date
    1971
    • Books
  • A group of Aboriginal people in a clearing, two or three wearing western clothes. Photograph, ca.1900.

    • Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957
    Reference
    541245i
    • Pictures
  • 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.

    • Canada. Health Canada.
    Date
    1985
    Reference
    668287i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 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.

    • Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957
    Reference
    541101i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Medizin der Ureinwohner Zentralaustraliens / Axel Kottmann.

    • Kottmann, Axel.
    Date
    1991
    • Books
  • 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
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online
  • 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
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online
  • Havens of refuge : a history of leprosy in Western Australia / W.S. Davidson.

    • Davidson, W. S. (William Sharp), 1909-
    Date
    1978
    • Books
  • Sorcery and healing : the meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community / by Janice Clare Reid.

    • Reid, Janice, 1942-
    Date
    1978
    • Books
  • Genetic diversity among Australian Aborigines / V. Balakrishnan and L.D. Sanghvi and R.L. Kirk.

    • Balakrishnan, V.
    Date
    1975
    • Books
  • Doctor and the aborigines / [Charles Duguid].

    • Duguid, Charles, 1884-
    Date
    [1972]
    • Books
  • Prehistoric stress in Australian aborigines : a palaeopathological study of a hunter-gatherer population / Stephen Webb.

    • Webb, Stephen.
    Date
    1989
    • Books
  • Heavy metal : the social meaning of petrol sniffing in Australia / Maggie Brady.

    • Brady, Maggie.
    Date
    1992
    • Books
  • 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
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online
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