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Effigy used in curing sick children, prob. Ibibio, Nigeria, W.Africa. These effigies were set out by the mother and appropriate sacrifices offered at a place indicated by the medicine-man.
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Museum object
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Effigies, West Africa
Ibibio
Sacrifices
Indigenous non-European medicine
Causation of disease
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