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Concept

Effigies

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

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    M0003935: Pair of effigies, Malakula Island

    | Date: May 1934 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/32/86
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    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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    Spirit-scaring effigy (Kareau), Nicobar Islands. Male

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    Consultation Figures, Southern Nigeria

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