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  • An Aboriginal man with a scarification on his shoulder. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • Bamenda, Cameroon, West Africa: a Nda woman, standing to attention, with scarification on her trunk and arms. Photograph, 1937.
  • Africa: a woman with scarification on her chest and arms, and with plugs in her ear-lobes and lower lip. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 19--.
  • Indian washerman and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A man from Mysore being handed some betel leaves by his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Australia: an aboriginal woman with a bone through her nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • A Malabar barber cutting a customer's hair. Gouache drawing.
  • A man of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) encountered by Captain Cook during his third voyage, 1776-1780. Engraving by J. Caldwall, 1784 after J. Webber, 1777.
  • Hindu barber and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Hindu barber shaving a man's head. Gouache drawing.
  • Brahman priest and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Hindu priest offering a young woman some holy beads. Gouache drawing.
  • An Indian carpenter and wife holding tools. Gouache drawing.
  • A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A young man of the Konyak Naga tribe, India, holding a human head. Photograph.
  • A woman giving her husband some betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Gouache drawing.
  • A begging Brahman raising his begging bowl to accept a gift from a woman. Gouache drawing.
  • Sierra Leone: a tattooed man of the Kissi people collecting money. Photograph, 19--.
  • Australia: an aboriginal man (Ned Woolnah?) with a bone through his nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • Indian weavers. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Pair of wrestlers fighting. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian potter and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian barber and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Moodaly and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian goldsmiths at work. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian perfume sellers. Gouache drawing.
  • A man carrying Holy water with his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian singers and musicians. Gouache drawing.