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  • A popular acrobatics performance. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • A machi, or medicine woman, Araucania, Chile.
  • African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.
  • The smoking room in a gentlemen's club. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • A gentlemen's dinner looking out onto the river. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • A child with plugs in holes in his earlobes - to gradually increase the size, for ornamental purposes. Halftone after a photograph by J.W. Beattie.
  • Café Procope, Paris: men and women chatting over drinks. Aquatint.
  • A popular and fashionable centre devoted to the arts and sciences. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • Sarawak: a Kayan woman dancing with the head of an enemy. Photograph.
  • A native North American shaman or medicine man healing a patient. Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after Captain Eastman.
  • An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour.
  • A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
  • A busy day at the beach. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • People promenading in Belgravia. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • Sarawak: Sea Dayak men at a head feast. Photograph.
  • A man bleeding a woman in her arm by using a bow and arrow. Etching.
  • Sarawak: Murut women at a head feast. Photograph.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Halftone.
  • Sarawak: decorated human skulls hanging in a Kayan house. Photograph.
  • Four Kenyan shaman or medicine men dressed in ceremonial costume, South east Asia. Halftone.
  • A medicine man or shaman in Africa. Process print, 1910.
  • A begging Brahman performing a ritual with his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Sarawak: a peace-making ceremony between two Kayan tribes. Photograph.
  • A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India (?). Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
  • A begging Brahman carrying some rice accompanied by his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
  • Westerners at Yokohama, Japan, enjoying a lavish tea ceremony as a cellist plays to them. Coloured woodcut by Chikahisa, c. 1865, after Yoshikazu.