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  • The silver trowel used by Henry S. Wellcome to lay the corner-stone of the Wellcome Building in 1931. Photograph.
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    Mivḥar peninim = Izbrannye zhemchuzhiny : unikalnye pamiatniki evreiškoǐ kultury v Sankt-Peterburge / S.M. I︠a︡kerson.

    I︠A︡kerson, S. M. (Semen Mordukhovich) | Date: 2003
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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

    | Date: January 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/14/44
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    The silver trowel used by Henry S. Wellcome to lay the corner-stone of the Wellcome Building in 1931. Photograph.

    | Date: 1931 | Reference: 14373i
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    Evocations of the child : fertility figures of the southern African region.

    | Date: 1998
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