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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Chapel of Votive Tablets. Photograph from a negative of 1913.

The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: looking through the Primitive Medicine Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1939].

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of figurines and fetishes. Photograph from a negative of 1913.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: figurines in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph, 1913 (?).

Nomads : nomadic material culture in the Asian collections of the Horniman Museum / Ken Teague.

The conservation of fur, feather and skin : seminar organised by the Conservators of Ethnographic Artefacts at the Museum of London on 11 December 2000 / edited by Margot M. Wright.

Ekpu : the Oron ancestor figures of South Eastern Nigeria / Keith Nicklin.

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Nomads : nomadic material culture in the Asian collections of the Horniman Museum / Ken Teague.

The conservation of fur, feather and skin : seminar organised by the Conservators of Ethnographic Artefacts at the Museum of London on 11 December 2000 / edited by Margot M. Wright.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of figurines and fetishes. Photograph from a negative of 1913.

Ekpu : the Oron ancestor figures of South Eastern Nigeria / Keith Nicklin.