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Photograph of a reproduction of a drawing by A.C. Haddon of an initiation ceremony in the Torres Strait Islands. The reproduction is from <i>Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits</i> (1908).

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0005270-M0005370

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0005270: Traditional healer preparing medicine, Kxatla, South Africa / M0005270EB: Traditional healer divining the cause of a patients illness, Transvaal, South Africa

M0005271: Three images of a man looking to the sky and making a concoction, Katla, South Africa

M0005272: Old grindstone with rainstone / M0005272EB: Three rainstones / M0005272EC: Shindinu rain shrine, Bari, South Africa

M0005273: A suspended stone to prevent rain

M0005274: Cremation preparations in New Guinea, 1930

M0005275: Splints applied to the forearm of a Sudanese patient

M0005276: Splints applied to the forearm of a Sudanese patient

M0005277: Method of securing the Jebira / The Jebira splint

M0005278: Support for a fractured femur

M0005279: Support for a fractured forearm, Algeria

M0005280: Splints applied to fractured goat's legs

M0005281: Boy with scars on his forehead as a result of treatment for epilepsy, Papua New Guinea

M0005282: Boy with incision of the frontal bone, Papua New Guinea

M0005283: Surgical instruments / M0005283EB: Man with a scarred right forehead / M0005283EC: Man with a scarred left temple

M0005284: Operation scars on the arm and jaw

M0005285: Illustration of a stone chisel used for trepanning, Papua New Guinea

M0005286: Upper section of a trepanned skull, Papua New Guinea

M0005287: Detail of a trepanned skull, Papua New Guinea

M0005288: Detail of a trepanned skull, Papua New Guinea

M0005289: Medical truss from Sierra Leone

M0005290: Modern Egyptian truss

M0005291: Modern Egyptian Truss

M0005292: Algerian dental and ophthalmic instruments and cauteries

M0005293: A circumcision operation, Nupe, North Nigeria

M0005294: A circumcision operation, Nupe, North Nigeria

M0005295: Zulu man making an incision in the shoulder of another, South Africa

M0005296: Man cupping the cheek of a youth

M0005297: Drawing of a man cupping the chest and back of another man

M0005298: Drawing of a miniature bow and arrow used by the Cayapos of Brazil

M0005299: Drawing of a miniature bow and arrow, Papua of New Guinea

M0005300: Illustrations of bandages made from a perforated metal sheet and cord, Swahili

M0005301: Extracting a thorn from the sole of a man's foot, Southern Africa

M0005302: Dental amulets and charms: Tooth of the Wolf from Palestine and a necklace of cayx lacrima seeds, from Transvaal

M0005303: Dental amulets and charms

M0005304: Belgian, Russian and Polish dental charms and amulets

M0005305: English dental charms and amulets

M0005306: Eleven English dental charms and amulets

M0005307: Zulu girl ready for wedding dance

M0005308: Zulu male ready for the wedding dance

M0005309: Two Zulu women with their faces decorated with lime for the wedding dance

M0005310: Zulu women bringing beer to a wedding dance

M0005311: Zulu wedding dance

M0005312: Bride ready for a Zulu wedding dance

M0005313: A group of women preparing the hair of the bride for a Zulu wedding dance

M0005314: Abakweta (young Xhosa men) dressing for a dance, their bodies having been painted with spots, South Africa

M0005315: Bomvana Abakweta having their bodies painted, South Africa

M0005316: Two people with full body paint, ready for a dance, Bomvanaland, Eatern Cape, South Africa

M0005317: Group of Abakweta (young Xhosa men) of the Bomvana dancing

M0005318: A Bomvana man in full body paint

M0005319: Zulu wedding dance

M0005320: Man with a cane curled around his neck prior to a cane swallowing ritual, New Guinea

M0005321: Man swallowing a cane as part of a ritual, New Guinea.

M0005322: Vedda Divination, Sri Lanka

M0005323: Drawings of creatures thought to be disease demons

M0005324: Disease boat from the Nicabar Islands

M0005325: Miniature wooden bullock cart, Deccan, Southern India

M0005326: Divination: bone throwing in Southern Africa

M0005327: Divination: reading the bones, Southern Africa

M0005328: Portrait of Susruta, ancient Indian physician

M0005329: Portrait of Charaka, ancient Indian physician

M0005330: Persian drawing

M0005332: Anatomical drawing of the human skeleton, Persian

M0005333: Anatomical drawing of the human vascular system, Persian

M0005334: Anatomical illustration of the human viscera and a foetus in utero, Persian

M0005335: Distillation of fermented milk, South Siberia

M0005336: Illustration of the distillation of palm-wine, Indonesia

M0005338: Ekkpe (Igbo) Club House, Bende Ibo, Nigeria

M0005339: Nkanda man of the Igbo, Nigeria

M0005340: Masked figures from the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea

M0005341: Masked figures from Kawmot, South Coast of Papua New Guinea

M0005342: Canoes surrounding a dancing figure from the Duk-Duk secret society, Papua New Guinea.

M0005343: A group of men at the meeting place of the Duk-Duk secret society, Papua New Guinea.

M0005344: Men from the Duk-Duk secret society, Papua New Guinea.

M0005345: Men from the Duk-Duk secret society handing shell money to a dancer, Papua New Guinea.

M0005346: Closing of the ceremony of the Duk-Duk secret society

M0005347: "Hunting Juju", a Nigerian ceremony

M0005348: Two women waiting to join a ceremony in a clearing in the bush, West Africa

M0005349: A group of women standing with a masked Bundu dancer, West Africa

M0005350: Bundu girls standing, with arms raised above their heads and face paint on

M0005352: A masked Poro dancer, Sierra Leone

M0005353: A man dancing with a ceremonial bow at a Poro festival, Sierra Leone

M0005354: Four Tasso men of the Poro secret society, Sierra Leone

M0005355: Head priestess of Nimm, Ekoi, South Nigeria

M0005356: Boys from the Poro secret society wearing skirts for dancing

M0005357: Statue representing Maia, the priestess of Nimm

M0005358: New members of a women's secret society, Nigeria

M0005359: Illustration of a Nimm secret society woman's room, Nigeria

M0005360: Men from an Igbo secret society, Nigeria

M0005361: "The Garden of Earthly Delights": left hand panel from a triptych by Jerome Bosch

M0005362EA: Cupola of the Creation in the vestibule of St. Marks, Venice

M0005362EB: God introducing Adam into the Garden of Eden, tapestry

M0005363: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, 15th Century

M0005364: Adam naming the animals, engraving

M0005365: Cupola of the Creation in the vestibule of St. Marks, Venice: 5th day of creation

M0005366: Cupola of the Creation in the vestibule of St. Marks, Venice: 4th day of creation

M0005367: Cupola of the Creation in the vestibule of St. Marks, Venice: 1st day of creation

M0005368: Cupola of the Creation in the vestibule of St. Marks, Venice: 2nd day of creation

M0005369: Cupola of the Creation in the vestibule of St. Marks, Venice: 6th day of creation

M0005370: Decoration on an aryballos depicting a doctors' surgery

M0005337: Initiation ceremony in the Torres Strait Islands

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M0005337: Initiation ceremony in the Torres Strait Islands

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