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  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • Geronimo, the Apache chief. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
  • An Indian snake charmer squatting down playing his pipe, with two cobras in a basket in front of him, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A young African man posing naked, holding a stick and a piece of cloth, in front of a painted backdrop.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after a photograph attributed to O.S.M. Temple.
  • Nuku'alofa, Tonga: three Tongan women in front of a traditional hut. Albumen print by Burton Bros.
  • A family portrait in a photographic studio.
  • Phrenological chart with portraits of historical figures and illustrations of skulls exhibiting racial characteristics. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley, authored by C. Donovan, c. 1850.
  • A Samoan woman with leaves in her hair.
  • Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes. Collotype.
  • [Undated handbill (June 1886?) advertising an exhibition of "King Theebaw's Burmese sacred family". "Piccadilly Hall" has been overprinted with "Royal Aquarium"].
  • Historia natural, civil y geográfica de las naciones situadas en las riveras del Rio Orinoco / Su autor el padre Joseph Gumilla.
  • Jewelry maker. Gouache drawing.
  • Die Medicin der Naturvölker : ethnologische Beiträge zur Urgeschichte der Medicin / von Dr. Max Bartels.
  • A young Masai man, wearing a very large earring. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A group of people eating a meal, seated behind a small table, in front of a painted screen.
  • Trophies of a headhunter's house of the Chang Naga tribe, India, including human skulls. Photograph.
  • People of Leon, a man and woman holding hands, wearing traditional dress.
  • Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes showing African life. Collotype.
  • South Africa: a group of African women witch doctors. Albumen print.
  • [Undated handbill (1850?) advertising "a display of African tribesmen in traditonal costumes at Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].
  • A Bulgarian female acrobat performing contortions in a photographic studio.
  • Two Chinese ladies! : the only female natives of the Celestial Empire, ever seen in Europe!.
  • John Maskwas, an American of the Potawatomi. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
  • Africa: men of the Hlubi tribe eating. Albumen print.
  • A grey-haired African man, with an stomach oedema. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • Caa-Tou-See, an Ojibwa chief, standing with arms crossed. Coloured lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C.B. King, 1836.
  • A man and woman of the Toda tribe standing in a photographic studio, with a dog lying at their feet.