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  • The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
  • A young Masai woman, wearing much jewellery. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • A young woman wearing a necklace of beads and a checked skirt. Photograph.
  • A child with plugs in holes in his earlobes - to gradually increase the size, for ornamental purposes. Halftone after a photograph by J.W. Beattie.
  • Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes. Collotype.
  • Ethnography: women of the world. Mixed method engraving attributed to S. Himely after A.M. Perrot.
  • A child of an Amazonian Indian tribe, standing on a leopard skin, in a photographic studio.
  • Rubiana lagoon, Kimbo (?), Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by large earrings. Photograph.
  • Naiche, hereditary chief of the Chiricahua. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
  • A native American man and woman. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
  • A barefoot Aboriginal man in a photographic studio.
  • A South African medicine man or shaman. Colour process print after a photograph by G.W. Wilson.
  • An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
  • Shaumonekusse, a chief of the Oto (Otoe) tribe, wearing a crown hair piece with horns, a bear-claw necklace and a medallion. Colour lithograph by C. G. Childs after C. B. King, 1833.
  • Yellow Smoke, a member of the Omaha tribe. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1899.
  • Bushmen children.
  • People of Segovia, a man and woman wearing traditional dress.
  • Two Chinese ladies! : the only female natives of the Celestial Empire, ever seen in Europe!.
  • An Amazonian Indian child, next to a whitewashed wall with tall grasses all around.
  • Sierra Leone: a tattooed man of the Kissi people collecting money. Photograph, 19--.
  • A Bulgarian woman wearing national dress.
  • Africa: women seated in a row with bowls. Albumen print.
  • Te Kuiti, King Country, New Zealand: King Tawhiao's house. Albumen print by Burton Bros.
  • Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
  • (Left) a celebration of the birth of a child, (right) the child's first bath. Etching by B. Picart after himself, 1726.
  • A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
  • People of Valencia, a man and woman wearing traditional dress.
  • A cowherd and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Keeps the Mountain, a Sioux. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.