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  • A rishi (hindu teacher with mystical knowledge) with five heads and four arms, holding prayer beads in three hands and a manuscript in the fourth. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Chinese men harvesting. Gouache.
  • Taiwanese rural and provincial tableaux. Paintings by a Taiwanese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A small mosque under a canopy being attended to by a man holding a fly whisk. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A Fakir man and wife of south India. Gouache painting.
  • Sultan Abdullah Qutb Shah of Golconda. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A Zulu medicine man dancing in order to detect which one of the women seated around them has bewitched their ruler. Gouache by W.R.S. Stott, 1928.
  • A Chinese boat. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Bloodletting points and moxa points on the human body. Gouache painting, Tibet.
  • A musician playing the tampura (an Indian stringed instrument). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Burma: courtiers playing polo. Gouache painting.
  • Festival of Muḥarram: a procession of musicians, people carrying pennants and replicas of the martyrs' tombs. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A middle-aged man, head and shoulders; said to be "Hunter" in 1790. Gouache.
  • A creature with elaborate headdress. Gouache painting by an Indian artist (?).
  • Saint Sebastian. Gouache on glass.
  • A woman tying her sandal. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1936.
  • Rāja Jāyakī Rām. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A blue-skinned swami carrying a sword and a mace. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Four priests holding ritual vessels perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Eruption of Mount Vesuvius; lava covering dwellings. Gouache painting by Mauton, 1834.
  • A Sikh (?) woman in a bright orange dress holding an umbrella and walking. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • An oryx whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • Saint Apollonia (?). Gouache painting, 19--.
  • Indian roundels
  • A Jain horsegroom with his wife offering him a betel leaf. Gouache drawing.
  • A woman holding a tool to grind (?) which is tied to a rope. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Basket weavers. Gouache drawing.
  • A Chinese street vendor. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • People decorating the graves of their relatives in a cemetery in Italy for the celebration of All Souls. Gouache painting by Reginald Cleaver.
  • A Chinese woman being subjected to torture while tied to a cross: the woman's torturer is shown using a knife to cut open her abdomen, arms and face, while a formally-dressed man looks on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.