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Photograph of a Medicine man, Atna-Indianer

Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.

Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening

A Pueblo Medicine man with rattle made from a gourd

Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.

Medicine for fever of smallpox, Ekor Country Medicine creation for fever, Uyanga

Amulet 'for warding off the evils of war and sickness'.

African showing cicatrization on the back.

Carved wooden birds of a medicine man, Cameroons, W. Africa.

African charm doctors about to dance

Lancet with Greenstone blade and ivory handle, Eskimo. Used for making an incision to insert a labret.

Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia.

Pendant or receptacle, Ancient American

Rain charms- DOIOM from Expeditions to the Torres Straits

Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of square plaques, decorated.

Rain maker preparing his medicine, Kxatla, South Africa

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Non-European medicine

Images from the collections

Images about Non-European medicine

Works from the collections

Pendant or receptacle, Ancient American

Amulet 'for warding off the evils of war and sickness'.

Rain charms- DOIOM from Expeditions to the Torres Straits

Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of square plaques, decorated.

Rain maker preparing his medicine, Kxatla, South Africa

Non-European medicine

Images from the collections

Images about Non-European medicine

Works from the collections

Pendant or receptacle, Ancient American

Amulet 'for warding off the evils of war and sickness'.

Rain charms- DOIOM from Expeditions to the Torres Straits

Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of square plaques, decorated.

Rain maker preparing his medicine, Kxatla, South Africa

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