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Fighting Adze Toki, Greenstone blade and carved handle. Maori, New Zeland. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.

Effigy of a shaman, Haida, Queen charlotte Island.

Head mask. Yuruba, Southern Nigeria, W.Africa

Spirit-scaring effigy (Kareau), Nicobar Islands. Male

Ancestral anthropomorphic effigy, New Guinea.

The interior of a house on the island of Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada, with some of its inhabitants encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber.

Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.

The inside of a hut in a morai, place of burial and worship, in Atooi (Kauai); encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by E. Scott, 1784, after J. Webber.

Canoe-head mask, New Guinea.

A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears

A procession of officials of the city of London approach the entrance to St James's Palace to present to King George III the petition of the Livery of London. Engraving, 1769.

Medicine man's bag, jackal's skin, with head in situ. Uganda

M0003935: Pair of effigies, Malakula Island

A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Short hair, necklet and ear pendants of coix seeds. Lips sewn together, no threads hanging.

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A procession of officials of the city of London approach the entrance to St James's Palace to present to King George III the petition of the Livery of London. Engraving, 1769.

Medicine man's bag, jackal's skin, with head in situ. Uganda

M0003935: Pair of effigies, Malakula Island

A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Short hair, necklet and ear pendants of coix seeds. Lips sewn together, no threads hanging.

Spirit-scaring effigy (Kareau), Nicobar Islands. Male