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  • India (?): musicians, with drums, in traditional dress. Photograph, 1880/1900 (?).
  • Three Mapuche women bearing drums. Photograph of a process print, ca. 1900.
  • A priest exorcist, with two men playing cymbals and drums. Gouache painting.
  • Followers of Sri Chaitanya in a procession with flags, drums, dancing and singing. Transfer lithograph.
  • Followers of Sri Chaitanya in a procession with flags, drums, dancing and singing. Transfer lithograph.
  • A musician playing a tabla (a pair of drums). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Devotees of Krishna and followers of Sri Caitanya, dancing with drums, flags and narsingh horn. Chromolithograph.
  • Costa Rica (?): Mapache medicine women with drums, treating a patient. Photograph of a process print, ca. 1900.
  • Textiles: ribbon making, heating the ribbons on drums (top), details of equipment (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Four Sudanese musicians playing drums and wind instruments. Wood engraving by H.T. Hildibrand after O. Mathieu after G. Schweinfurth.
  • A stage set with table curtains surrounded by soldiers, armoury and drums; representing war. Etching with engraving after Jacques Callot, 1633.
  • Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths with drums, whips, etc: a mounted policeman moves through the throng. Wood engraving.
  • An acrobat climbing a pole held by another man while a musician drums out a beat. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Part of the coronation procession of King James II, 23 April 1685, with a piper and drums bringing up the rear. Engraving by J. Collins, 1685.
  • Jolly good salts : Sifta table salt in cartons and drums, Finest A1 cooking salt in cartons and cut lumps / Palmer, Mann & Co. Ltd.
  • Jolly good salts : Sifta table salt in cartons and drums, Finest A1 cooking salt in cartons and cut lumps / Palmer, Mann & Co. Ltd.
  • Musician with a percussion instrument made of two drums of different sizes joined together, and played with a drumstick, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • A medicine show; a moustachioed charlatan holds up a phial, a miserable patient sits in the carriage and a black man in uniform bangs the drums. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison.
  • Indian kettle-drummers. Gouache drawing.
  • A crowd of figures with the heads of animals carry banners and beat drums as they form a procession; representing the City of London Volunteers. Engraving by William Henry Toms after E. Heemskerk.
  • Chinese festival of Tu-Ti (the Earth God): a group of men are shown playing a game beside a shrine, accompanied by three others playing drums, watched by a woman and two children. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
  • India: a drummer with an exotic bird. Watercolour, 18--.
  • A Persian military drummer. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, Qajar period.
  • A drummer of Moorish descent (?). Gouache painting on mica, by an Indian artist.
  • A woman in a black and white dress singing next to a microphone with a man as their band members play the drums and guitar in the background; an advertisement for support for those with AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by R. Warzecha, M. Jahreiss and D. Pusch.
  • An Indian drummer used as a good luck charm by soldiers during the First World War.
  • A band of militiamen in uniform marching in a disorderly manner, headed by a drummer. Etching by M. Darly, 1777, after E. Topham.
  • Burma: members of the royal family accompanied by courtiers and drummers drive oxen through a rice paddy to inaugurate the annual crop. Gouache painting.
  • Francis Goodchild, taking tea with his new wife, pays a drummer representing a group of serenading musicians, as was the custom, from his City house close to the Monument. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth.
  • Indian acrobats performing. Gouache painting.