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The silver trowel used by Henry S. Wellcome to lay the corner-stone of the Wellcome Building in 1931. Photograph.

M0001545: Black and white photograph of a pointing stick or bone, which was possibly used by a Kurdaitcha (or kurdaitcha man, a type of shaman amongst the Arrernte people, an Aboriginal group in Central Australia) in the ritual of bone-pointing

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M0001545: Black and white photograph of a pointing stick or bone, which was possibly used by a Kurdaitcha (or kurdaitcha man, a type of shaman amongst the Arrernte people, an Aboriginal group in Central Australia) in the ritual of bone-pointing

The silver trowel used by Henry S. Wellcome to lay the corner-stone of the Wellcome Building in 1931. Photograph.