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  • Two boys in a photographic studio, one seated on a chair, in front of a curtained backdrop.
  • A shaman singing and beating a drum. Halftone.
  • Three portraits shown for their phrenological exemplarity: Gall, Eustache and Chauffron. Lithograph by C. Picard, 1842, after J.P. Thenot.
  • New Georgia, Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by heavy earrings. Photograph.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • An Indian man wearing elaborate jewellery and make-up, squatting in front of a small table on which is a shrine, perhaps in a temple. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A woman (possibly intended to be African) with pouting lips in elaborate head gear. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776 (?), after himself.
  • Two members of the Kiowa tribe. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
  • A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • Two men sawing a baulk of timber in a woodyard, in Korea.
  • A line of shops beside a dusty street, with telegraph poles overhead, in Korea.
  • Indian hunter and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • The Malay archipelago : the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
  • An Italian brigand attacking a gentleman on a road; exhibiting the phrenological 'propensity' of 'destructiveness'. Steel engraving by S. Wolff, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • A barechested, bearded Samoan man, with his arms crossed.
  • Bulgarian men wearing national dress.
  • An Aboriginal medicine man or shaman from the Kakadu tribe sucking the illness from a patient. Process print after B. Spencer, 1914.
  • The Australian aboriginal / by Herbert Basedow ; with 146 illustrations.
  • A North African woman with scarification on her cheeks. Photograph by G. Lekegian, ca. 1900.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • The Malay archipelago : the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
  • West African studies / by Mary H. Kingsley.
  • A Binsa sorcerer or shaman, Congo. Halftone.
  • Assam: a Konyak Naga boy with a head-hunter's tattoo. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.
  • A man bleeding a woman in her arm by using a bow and arrow. Etching.
  • Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • An account of the interior of Ceylon, and of its inhabitants. With travels in that island / By John Davy.
  • Moaz-Kida (Shooting Cedar), a member of the Winnebago tribe. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1899.
  • Panama Indian family outside a traditional hut. Photograph, 1900/1910.
  • Japan: a man with elaborate tattoos on his body. Coloured photograph.