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  • A Kenyan house fenced in for protection against enemies. The Baran and Batang Kenyan tribes.
  • A battle. Ink drawing.
  • An axe-head and figure of an Australian native
  • Iron staff surmounted by pellet balls and grotesque figures. African [?]
  • Afghan soldiers caught between allied troops in the Anglo-Afghan war, 1839-42. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Native mats, spears, shield and fishing net
  • Zulus wearing penis sheaths, West Africa
  • Skull trophy, Kayan woman dancing with the head of an enemy
  • Skull trophies in a Kayan house
  • Obsidian blade mounted in ornamental handle, from Admiralty
  • Scraper of stone mounted in handle
  • A Scotsman with a rifle, sword and shield guarding barrels (of tobacco?). Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • Malta: the armoury of the Governor's Palace. Photograph by H. Agius, c. 1881.
  • A Scotsman with a rifle, sword and shield guarding barrels (of tobacco?). Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • Durga on her lotus with symbols surrounded and attended by devotees. Gouache drawing.
  • Museum of Arms, Vienna, Austria. Wood engraving by I. Heaviside, 1866, after B. Sly after T. Hansen.
  • A regal Mary (or Wisdom?), as the Church of the Last Judgement, flanked by angels. Line engraving by T. de Leu.
  • Crutch-like wooden flaking-tools used by American Indians
  • Manufacture of Stone implements, North American Indians.
  • Showing a device used by American Indians for holding stones
  • Manden bone tools used in the preparation of stone implements, North Dakota.
  • Manner of striking a stone where the edge is sharp to shew direct percussion.
  • Page 132: Bhairava with his attributes (a dog, a club and a bowl). Gouache painting.
  • Indirect percussion method practised by Apache Indians
  • Indirect percussion method practised by Wintun Indians of North America in manufacturing stone implements
  • Four young Maasai men, carrying spears, standing beside a train. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Sarawak: a line-up of armed Sarawak Rangers. Photograph.
  • The head priestess of Nimm, Ekoi, South Nigeria
  • Chinese carrying a wounded man on stretcher poles. Wood engraving.
  • Nimm neophytes, Ekoi, S.Nigeria