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Caesarean knife and two cautery instruments, Uganda, c. 1830-1920.

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1830-1920

Skin of a jackal used as a medicine man's bag or puppet, Uganda, c. 1880-1920

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Poster promoting tetanus immunisation in pregnant women, 1990-1993

Public Health & Hygiene

1990-1993

Small ivory tusk used as part of a headdress by an

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1900

Decorated tobacco pipe

Smoking

1880-1925

Pipe in form of flintlock pistol

Smoking

1890-1930

Small lid for milk pot made of fine basketry, coil

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Black pottery tobacco pipe with long wooden stem,

Smoking

1900-1930

Ear pendant consisting of 2 narrow pieces of serra

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1920

Small knife with steel blade, used by a woman in t

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Surgical instruments, Uganda, 1880-

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Uganda,

Fibre waist-ring of chequered raffia plaiting worn

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Animal horn used with needle for blood letting

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Bag of `Omohukyi' plant, lantana salvifolia, Uganda, collected 1919

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1919

Row of brass beads threaded on a string, but possi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Divination plaque, Uganda, South Africa and Zambia, 1880-1920

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1901-1925

Set of six divination plaques, Uganda, 1915-1925

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1915-1925

Small cone shaped headdress made from cartridge ca

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Amulets in the form of a gazelle's horn with bells

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

before 1962

Steel bladed knife, possibly used for ceremonial p

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1897

Amuletic necklace worn by, "witch doctor" part of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Wooden ear lobe distender, solid block, roughly ov

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1915

Grass basketry penis sheath, bottle shaped, finely

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1918

Clear glass lip stud in the shape of an elephants

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Pair of hide sandals, possibly buffalo, flat sole

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Tusk with thong attached on which are threaded sna

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1920

Grass plaited basket with black triangular pattern

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1901-1930

Decorated tobacco pipe with bowl only

Smoking

1890-1925

Gandan neck ring from the stem of the plantain tre

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Tapering cylindrical lip-plug of glass

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Pair of hide sandals, with incised geometric desig

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Fly whisk with red, white and blue glass beads wit

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1920

Ivory amulet, annular, split down side and fastene

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1898

Praying Peasant, earthenware sculpture of an African christian

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1945-1975

Copper neckring, split at back with flattened peak

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1920

Woven grass basket, flower pot shaped body, sharpl

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Wooden comb with six long prongs and handle, proba

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Ivory, shuttle shaped ear lobe distender, worn by

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Wooden "bentwood" headrest fitted with leather tho

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Amuletic necklace consisting of leather thong thre

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Bamboo container with reed stopper, used by medicine man

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Small manicure knife with steel blade and copper h

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1915

Wooden head rest, possibly also used as stool, spl

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Bottle shaped basket made from grasses and osler (

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Tobacco pipe with bowl only, resembling Latuka pipe of the Upper Nile

Smoking

1850-1900

Amuletic necklace

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Wooden ear plug, used to distend the ear lobe, Sog

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1915

Ivory armlet in the form of a canoe bow

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Light wooden container for carrying awls or other

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Tobacco pipe with bowl and stub stem only

Smoking

1890-1925