One of three copies.
Guide for the use of Visitors to The Horniman Museum and Library, 1904
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Slide of a shaman surrounded by a ring of people at a shaman festival
16th April. Pingyuan Shao village, Guiyang. Child.
Sand canoes. Washing.
Souvenir slide: Ivory pipe (Eskimo, Point Barrow, Alaska)
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