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  • African medicine man, string knitted suit, black & white mask
  • Seventeen African statues, effegies, including mask, top left, from Nigeria
  • Sri Lankan mask with blue coloured face and tall red hat.
  • Japanese soldier wearing an anti-plague face mask. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Mask, carved wood, markings on forehead and string beard. African [?]
  • Death mask of Jean Conradin Heidegger, Bürgermeister of Zurich. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Giovanni Gabrielli ("Sivello") holding a mask. Etching by Agostino Carracci, ca. 1599.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • The death-mask of Maria Manning, the murderer: three views. Lithograph by John Lane.
  • The death mask of Charles Talleyrand, the French statesman. Lithograph, c. 1860, after M. Krantz.
  • An elegant lady with gloves, mask and fur muff; representing Winter. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • A nurse and a surgeon, both wearing gown and mask. Etching by H.A. Freeth.
  • Procedures for using a protective face mask in civil defence: four figures. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • HM Queen Elizabeth II looking at a Ceylonese mask. Photograph by the Associated Press Ltd., 1962.
  • Two men wearing masks club Hudibras, as Ralphos, removing his mask, and a widow (dressed in black), watch from a doorway. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Death-mask of a man, possibly of C. Heidegger. Line engraving with etching by J.H. Lips, 1779.
  • Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
  • Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
  • Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
  • A mentally ill patient with mask and hand restraints. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.
  • Six soldiers demonstrating putting a gas mask on over the face. "To show stages in adjustment of a SBR".
  • A girl pretending to be frightened by a boy in a fox mask. Colour woodcut by Yamamoto Shōun, 1906.
  • Engraved emblem of Hercules choosing between Virtue and Vice, Vice taking off a mask and showing the deformities of syphilis.
  • Painted wooden mask, polychrome, with coiled Cobra disc ear-pieces and Cobra headress representing beaked gurulu rassa from Kolam play, Sinhalese
  • Painted wooden mask, polychrome, with coiled Cobra disc ear-pieces and Cobra headress representing beaked gurulu rassa from Kolam play, Sinhalese
  • Yellow fever: a scientist wearing a face mask works at a laboratory bench with bunsen burners and microscopes. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).
  • Sinhalese mask used in exorcism and showing the heads of eighteen disease-spreading demons on either side of the central figure.
  • Methods of torture through the ages: including a rack, the man in the iron mask? and Roman and Tudor punishments. Halftone.