M0012676: Charm for driving mosquitoes away, North Queensland

Previous title, replaced August 2022: Charm for driving mosquitoes away

Image of a charm, known as a Nguru, in the shape of a man, for driving mosquitoes away. Published in Roth, W. E.: "Superstition, Magic and Medicine", North Queensland Ethnography Bulletin, no.5,

August 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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