Kenya, A tribal healer prepares to tell the fortune of a client, using beans contained in a number of small stoppered gourds. Original manuscript captions: Reading the beansA witchdoctor with his beans, or stones, in small stoppered gourds, preparing to tell the fortune of a client. South Nyeri, 1936, 1937. 1995/076/1/2/5/24.

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Reading the beans

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