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Concept

Causation of disease

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  • Human control of non-natural agency, Africa.
  • Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.
  • Mask used by 'Eskimo' shaman in causation of illness.
  • 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.
  • Effigy to averty spirits of disease. Nicobar Islands.
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    Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa.

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    Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.

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

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