Photograph of medicine-woman from Tembuland, South Africa, 1900-1925

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1925

Carved wooden figurine of woman and child

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Boar's tusk, part of a medicine man's apparatus, D

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Complete shell of tortoise, used by witch doctors

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Wooden stick cut from the branch of a tree, used i

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

2 sections of Kuman vine-stem

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Medicine man in form of highly stylised pot, partl

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1918

Wooden stick, pointed, part of medicine man's bag,

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Brass clapper bell with steel clapper, attached to

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Animal tail amulet used as "medicine" by medicine

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Medicine man's amuletic necklace, large copper cha

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Carved wooden anthropomorphic head and shoulders w

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1830-1925

Steel tweezers used by Medicine Man, v-shaped, spa

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Carved wooden effigy (Ntutu Agwli) in the form of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Board with stick, feathers and plaited grasswork

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Shaman's wooden ladle, Nigeria, 1901-1950

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1901-1950

Medicine man's wand cigar-shaped, covered with wo

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Animal tusk, hollow, perforated in four places, pa

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Horn, probably rhinoceros, said to be used by medi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Amuletic horn, carved, filled with "medicine"

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Hollow thorn, part of medicine man's bag, pointed

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Twisted cane staff with handle in form of right ha

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Forceps, medicine mars, with chain attached, origi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Stone marked with a black cross on both sides, kno

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Medicine man's tusk carved at one end with human f

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Medicine man's girdle, hide with pendant bell and

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Carved wooden effigy, demon-like creature with lon

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1930

"MuSu" medicine man's bag

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Part of medicine man's equipment - a monkey's paw

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Medicine man's ring made of lanceolate nut on iron

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Medicine man's wand, provenance unknown, 1880-1926

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1926

Hyena skin cloak worn by medicine man, decorated w

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Zulu witch doctor's devil horns and charm box with

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Pointed wooden stick, part of content of medicine

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1920

Small stick sharpened at apex like a pencil, part

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Wooden stick, pointed, part of medicine man's bag,

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Medicine man's horn, Kasai River, Congo, 1890-1930

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Carved wooden offering table or "Iki abia agwa", i

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Carved wooden statue of mother and child

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Six containers of beetle chitin and seeds suspende

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Gazelle (?) horn, part of medicine man's outfit, f

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

2 roots, regarded as magical, part of medicine man

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Container, hollowed-out gourd

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Small skin medicine man's bag hung with chains, to

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no g

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1860-1910

Small orange gourd, filled with grass and seeds, u

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Small turtle shell "Used as medicine by medicine m

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Dried nut shell similar in texture to a walnut rou

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1920

Medicine man's bag, printed cloth containing shell

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930