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Show Rare Curios at Auction For smothering widows after their husbands have died, a dense mask used by the relatives of Polynesia was one of a number of weird rarities rari-ties recently sold at auction in London. Lon-don. Other odd things included a New Guinea "man catcher," a hideous mask worn by the members of a Me-lanesian Me-lanesian secret society; a collection of human heads, some of which have been made into baskets; a South sea god and goddess which were found In a cave, and a primitive iron tooth extractor. |