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Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.

Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.

Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening

Amulets of ivory, Belgian Congo, Africa.

Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.

Amulet 'for warding off the evils of war and sickness'.

Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show their heads.

Carved wooden birds of a medicine man, Cameroons, W. Africa.

Amulet in the form of a fish, ...Aboriginal peoples.

Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia.

Pendant or receptacle, Ancient American

'Tight-lacing' in New Guinea. A boy of the Mekeo district who has passed through initiation ceremonies and is of an age to marry.

Amuletic necklet, made of bones of relative, Andaman Islands

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Pendant or receptacle, Ancient American

'Tight-lacing' in New Guinea. A boy of the Mekeo district who has passed through initiation ceremonies and is of an age to marry.

Amulet 'for warding off the evils of war and sickness'.

Amuletic necklet, made of bones of relative, Andaman Islands

Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.