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Carved wooden ancestral figure of female

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Wooden statue of squatting female figure

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Wooden statue, lion holding a pestle and mortar

Pharmacy-ware

Creamware plate, painted overglaze scene of a bapt

Medical Ceramic-ware

1771-1800

Painted and carved male ancestral figure with headdress

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1910

Model of elephant carrying sacred alms bowl of Buddha

Asian Medicine

Buddhist statue of Dharmapala

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Carved wooden staff tapering column surmounted by a human head probably representing Shapona (Shopono), amuletic concerned with smallpox, Yoruba people, Nigeria, 1860-1900

Carved wooden staff in form of human head

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1860-1900

Wooden statue depicting a doctor, German

Clinical Diagnosis

Marble relief marking a grave, Greece, 350-300 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

350 BCE-300 BCE

Carved wooden figure of Eshu(?), Yoruba, maker, So

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1935

Anthropomorphic squatting nomoli, stone figure, cr

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1700

Carved wooden ancestral figure, tall, slim upright

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Carved wooden effigy or Ibedji, typical Yoriba sta

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Pottery statue depicting a squatting woman, Spanis

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Carved wooden figure of a witch, France, c. 1900-1934

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1934

Medicine man in form of highly stylised pot, partl

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1918

Glass bottle with saint painted or side

Medical Glass-ware

Contemporary scroll panorama of the galleries of the Great Exhibition of 1851, with charts of attendance figures, published by the Illustrated London News

Scroll panorama of the Great Exhibition 1851 galleries

Wellcome (general)

1852

Carved wooden statue highly abstract treatment of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Ivory figure group depicting a blood-letting scene

Therapeutics

1601-1700

Female nomoli figure of carved steatite, probably

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1700

Carved wooden plaque showing a man spearing a snak

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1930

Votive plaque, earthenware, tin glazed, from Deruta, Italian, 1724

Votive earthenware plaque

Medical Ceramic-ware

1724

Ivory statue of a pregnant female, Congo, African

Ivory statue of a pregnant female

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Ivory ancestral figure carved from the tip of a hi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1925

Anthropomorphic kneeling figure, carved from black

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1900

Miniature carved stone figure of pregnant woman, probably amuletic and possibly pendant, from Central Africa, 1880-1925

Miniature carved stone figure of pregnant woman

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Statue of male deity (?), possibly copy, earthenwa

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1500-1930

Nomoli figure, anthropomorphic, carved, from steat

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1800

Carved wooden anthropomorphic head and shoulders w

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1830-1925

Galvanic brooch of black vulcanite, with cherub ho

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Anthropomorphic stone figure, nomoli, head and tor

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1700

Carved wooden statue of female figure in standing position with figure in standing position with child clinging to the right side of her body, standing on square base, Fulani, Gambia, 1890-1930

Female figure with child

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Wooden statue depicting a corpulent specialist, Ge

Clinical Diagnosis

Wooden statue depicting a doctor, German (see note

Clinical Diagnosis

1921-1930

Ivory statue of a beggar, with crutch and wooden l

Orthopaedics

1701-1800

Votive plaque, earthenware, tin glazed, from Deruta, Italian, 1650-1750

Votive earthenware plaque

Medical Ceramic-ware

1650-1750

Wooden statue with concretion on tip of head, poss

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Pottery plaque moulded in one piece showing bust o

Smoking

1801-1870

Curved wooden staff flared pillar surmounted by hu

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1900

Earthenware votive plaque with maiolica glaze, depicts woman sick in bed attended by woman and priest. Also Virgin and Child motif, product of Deruta potteries, Italian, 1760-1800

Earthenware votive plaque with maiolica glaze

Medical Ceramic-ware

1760-1800

Carved wooden statue, male in standing position, i

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1701-1850

Carved wooden statue of a male in standing positio

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1701-1850

Carved wooden ancestral figure, anthropomorphic, s

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1891-1920

Ivory ancestral figurine carved from the tip of an

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1925

Nomoli head, anthromorphic, carved from steatite b

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1501-1800

Copy of Aurionacian Venus, plaster, original found

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1931-1937

Carved wooden ancestral figure of male standing in

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Pottery figure, with traces of black slip, from Ap

Ethnography and Folk Medicine