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Primitive medicine

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  • Exhibition: Primitive Medicine.
  • Ceremonial rattle representing the 'thunder-bird'. Haida, Queen Charlotte Island, British Columbia.
  • Exhibition: Primitive Medicine.
  • Effigy of a shaman, Haida, Queen charlotte Island.
  • Head mask. Yuruba, Southern Nigeria, W.Africa
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    Wellcome museum: primitive medicine, skeletal remains

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

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    Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: hygiene

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    Elongated skull for memorial head, face modelled in clay

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    Wellcome museum, primitive medicine, food preparation, 1946

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