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KWE3033714: The Mask-House of a secret society, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia. These buildings were erected in the secret enclosures of the societies, to which women and the uninitiated men were forbidden entrance. The members of the societies made the masks in the enclosures and occasionally emerged, dressed up in the masks and strange garments, and terrified all the other people of the district, who thought they were spirits. After a 19th century photograph. From Customs of The World, published c.1913. / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033726: Objects important in Australian Aborigine ceremonies: two types of magical pointing-bones or sticks; an ornament of eaglehawk's claws, worn round the neck; a neckband and tassel; a Churinga or Tjurunga. After a 19th century photograph. From Customs of The World, published c.1913. / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033777: Sargon of Akkad aka Sargon the Great leading his army along the coast road in Northern Syria, a Semitic Akkadian emperor he was known for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915. / Bridgeman Images