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  • A stable where young stablemates take care of the horses and their headgear and bridle. Colour lithograph with paper cutouts.
  • A man wearing a headgear with an image of a deity (?), standing with his cow. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A launderess and an assistant standing in a cart (drawn by a horse wearing elaborate headgear) are collecting laundry from a man. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Chalon.
  • A man carrying a ceremonial object stands next to a tableau of rocks, a camel, decorated headgear and other animals set on an ornate base. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Left, a variety of saddles, harnesses and grooming equipment; right, a variety of headgears, bridles, snaffles and clasps. Engraving by G. Dheulland.
  • 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.
  • Shanghai, China: a woman wearing a velvet snood. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Shanghai, China: a woman wearing a velvet snood. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A woman (possibly intended to be African) with pouting lips in elaborate head gear. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776 (?), after himself.
  • The monastic habit of Saint Francis of Assisi compared two hoods worn by Roman women and children. Etching, 17--.
  • Cowasjee, a man who had his nose reconstructed with the aid of plastic surgery. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter, 1795, after J. Wales.
  • Cowasjee, a man who had his nose reconstructed with the aid of plastic surgery. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter, 1795, after J. Wales.
  • An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • Three angry Indians throwing stones and sticks at a medicine man. Coloured engraving.
  • A Mrua medicine man or shaman with his assistants, Central Africa. Coloured wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.
  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • A physiognomist whose body is entirely made up of faces, sitting at a table diagnosing people's physiognomic characteristics with the help of a book. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley after G. Spratt, 1831.
  • A South African medicine man or shaman. Colour process print after a photograph by G.W. Wilson.
  • A character in the play "The widdow Ranter": Semernia, a Native American queen, with two pageboys. Mezzotint by W. Vincent.
  • A Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is lying dead on her bed, mourned by a servant. Etching by G.B. Cipriani after B. Cellini.
  • The western and eastern churches represented by St. Peter's in Rome and S. Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople); Jewish circumcision and the baptism of a baby by a bishop, with a border showing headwear of different groups. Engraving by R. Smith.
  • The western and eastern churches represented by St. Peter's in Rome and S. Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople); Jewish circumcision and the baptism of a baby by a bishop, with a border showing headwear of different groups. Engraving by R. Smith.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.