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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1925

Medicine man in form of highly stylised pot, partl

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1918

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

Brass clapper bell with steel clapper, attached to

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

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

Shaman's wooden ladle, Nigeria, 1901-1950

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1901-1950

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Horn, probably rhinoceros, said to be used by medi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

"MuSu" medicine man's bag

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

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

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Animal tusk, hollow, perforated in four places, pa

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Amuletic horn, carved, filled with "medicine"

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Stone marked with a black cross on both sides, kno

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Twisted cane staff with handle in form of right ha

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1926

Small stick sharpened at apex like a pencil, part

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Pointed wooden stick, part of content of medicine

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1920

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

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

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Container, hollowed-out gourd

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

2 sections of Kuman vine-stem used by witch doctor

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Medicine man's bag, printed cloth containing shell

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Medicine man's bag, jackal skin, with head and rem

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Carved wooden anthropomorphic figure standing on i

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Medicine man's bag(?) or headdress(?), woven cotto

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1935

Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no g

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1860-1910

Dried nut shell similar in texture to a walnut rou

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1920

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Complete shell of tortoise, used by witch doctors

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

2 roots, regarded as magical, part of medicine man

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Small turtle shell "Used as medicine by medicine m

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Pair of horns perforated at their bases and lashed

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Bark, part of medicine man's equipment

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Switch made from elephant hair

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Brass tin containing moss, chalk, and shells

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Loosely woven fibre coconut(?) medicine man's cost

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Bundle of maize leaves said to be folded around sm

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1800-1920

Medicine man's neck ring in form of coiled snake m

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920