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  • Two Japanese peasants on a village path, the man carries a scythe and the woman has a baby on her back. Gouache painting.
  • View of the front of Tenby.
  • A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • The gathering and drying of cinchona bark in a Peruvian forest. Wood engraving, by C. Laplante, c. 1867, after Faguet.
  • A black woman being tortured by being tied to the tail of a horse and dragged through the square of a village. Wood engraving by H.Q.
  • Women gathering leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum coca) in Bolivia. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • Baksa, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Baksa or Zuojhen (Zuozhen), Formosa [Taiwan]: Pepohoan dwellings. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Baksa or Zuojhen (Zuozhen), Formosa [Taiwan]: Pepohoan dwellings. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Baksa, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A dog sniffing another dog's backside. Etching after J. Peake.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Chukchi people and housing encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by D. Lerpiniere, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Laos. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Laos. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Laos. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
  • A man wearing a ribboned wig, sitting on a chair, pointing his finger. Etching by Arthur Pond after P.L. Ghezzi.
  • Annam, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Annam, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867.
  • Annam, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1867.
  • A red snapper and a mackerel. Watercolour painting on cloth on board by a Chinese artist.