Twisted cane staff with handle in form of right hand grasping serpent Ethnography and Folk Medicine 1801-1900
Photograph of medicine-woman from Tembuland, South Africa, 1900-1925 Ethnography and Folk Medicine 1900-1925
2 sections of Kuman vine-stem used by witch doctor in place of human bones Ethnography and Folk Medicine 1890-1925
Carved wooden figurine of kneeling woman holding a small child on one knee, other hand clutching her left breast, padded cloth neckband, made by medicine man to keep evil spirits away from pregnant women, Mayombe tribe, West Congo, 1880-1925 Carved wooden figurine of woman and child Ethnography and Folk Medicine 1880-1925
Carved wooden effigy (Ntutu Agwli) in the form of a stylized bird Ethnography and Folk Medicine 1890-1930
Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in red fabric Ethnography and Folk Medicine 1880-1920
Part of medicine man's equipment - monkey's paw partly covered with a reddish concretion of medicine Ethnography and Folk Medicine 1880-1920
Carved wooden statue of mother and child, mother sitting cross-legged suckling child on her knee, mitre shaped headdress, cicitrization marks on back etc., appealed to for safe upbringing of children, Loango tribe, maker, Central Africa, 1880-1910 Carved wooden statue of mother and child Ethnography and Folk Medicine 1880-1910
Six containers of beetle chitin and seeds suspended on beaded and twisted fibre strings Ethnography and Folk Medicine 1880-1920
