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  • Africa: a group of African people standing on a kraal hut. Albumen print.
  • South Africa: Africans in front of a traditional kraal hut. Albumen print.
  • Northern expedition : just arrived from Baffin's Bay, to be seen, at no. 183 Piccadilly (opposite Burlington House,) the only two esquimaux indians, (male and female), brought to England from the frozen regions of the North ...
  • Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: African warriors preparing to dance. Albumen print.
  • A man of an Amazonian tribe, holding a spear and wearing a feathered head-dress, in a photographic studio.
  • Africa: a group of African warriors. Albumen print.
  • No-tin, a chief of the Ojibwa tribe, with facial tattoes and wearing a feather headdress. Coloured lithograph by Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment after C. B. King, 1842.
  • Basket weavers. Gouache drawing.
  • Das Weib in der Natur- und Völkerkunde : anthropologische Studien / von Heinrich Ploss und Max Bartels.
  • Two young Kikuyu men, carrying sticks. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Borneo: a Kenyah man demonstrating the blowpipe, Sarawak, North Borneo. Photograph attributed to Charles Hose.
  • Just arrived from Bullock's Museum, the greatest novelty in Hull : to be seen, at no. 13 Queen-Street, the only two esquimaux indians, ever brought to this kingdom : mal;e and female, from the frozen regions of the North ...
  • The races of men: a fragment / By Robert Knox.
  • A troupe of nautch dancing girls, standing in a line holding hands, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • Mr. C. French Anga's New Zealand and Australian exhibition ... : comprising upwards of 300 full-length portraits, from life, of the prinicipal New Zealand Chiefs, with their wives and children.
  • Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes. Collotype.
  • An American of the Kiowa tribe. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
  • 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 tree bearing fruit labelled with virtues; representing the life of the Christian. Coloured etching by J. Couse, c. 1780, after J. Bakewell.
  • The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
  • A profile of an old mentally disabled man, skulls of various races, skulls of a monkey and an orangutan, and a perfect, diagrammed human face; demonstrating the methods of physiognomy. Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
  • Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.
  • A line of sedan chairs waiting beside a railway track, in Korea.
  • Cornplanter, a leader of the Seneca tribe, holding a smoking pipe with pipe attachments and axe-blades. Colour lithograph by J.T. Bowen after F. Bartoli, 1836.
  • Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five scenes of the interior. Collotype.
  • Ethiopia: a Gurage woman tattooing another on the wrist. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.
  • An Indian man wearing many beads, and carrying a begging bowl and an umbrella, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Henry Wilson and his wife, Americans of the Mohave. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
  • Shaumonekusse, a chief of the Oto (Otoe) tribe, wearing a crown hair piece with horns, a bear-claw necklace and a medallion. Coloured lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1833.