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Headgear

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  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • Head and shoulders of a hideous old woman wearing an escoffin over a wimple. Colour stipple engraving by B. Pastorini, 1806, after L. da Vinci.
  • A character in the play "The widdow Ranter": Semernia, a Native American queen, with two pageboys. Mezzotint by W. Vincent.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
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    A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.

    | Reference: 21322i
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    Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac feigning illness in front of Béline, his wife and Dr. Purgon, his physician, in a scene from Molière's play. Etching by G. Schouten after J.B. Molière.

    Molière, 1622-1673. | Reference: 21936i
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    Specification of Robert Jackson : protective coverings to be used in cutaneous diseases.

    Jackson, Robert. | Date: 1858
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    War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.

    Overend, William Heysham, 1851-1898. | Reference: 20891i
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    A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.

    | Reference: 21325i
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