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These fragments of quartz, tin, boar’s tusk, and stone were
‘extracted’ by a medicine-woman from the knee of a man
who was suffering from rheumatism. As practised in many cultures,
Naga shamans sometimes healed sickness by performing a sacrifice
and then ‘extracting’ a foreign body, such as a stone,
from the affected person.
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database record 1923.84.253
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