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  • 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 Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.
  • A native North American shaman or medicine man healing a patient. Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after Captain Eastman.
  • [Undated handbill (June 1886?) advertising an exhibition of "King Theebaw's Burmese sacred family" at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • Governor Diego Naranjo. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
  • Death mask of Eustache, a slave from the Dominican republic who came to be awarded a 'prize for virtue' in 1830's Paris. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Four young Maasai men, carrying spears, standing beside a train. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Japan: two men (bettoes or grooms) with elaborate tattoos. Coloured photograph.
  • Serowe, Botswana: an African devil dancer wearing a headdress. Albumen print.
  • The three Magi offer gifts to the infant Christ, who sits on the Virgin's lap. Tinted lithograph by I. Bergman, 1822, after J.C. Schwarz.
  • An Ashluslay Indian medicine man examining a sick patient, South America. Halftone after a photograph E. Nordenskiöld.
  • A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A young man (?) with elaborate scarification on his face. Photograph.
  • A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving.
  • A young Indian man wearing an elaborate headress and makeup, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A young Indian boy, wearing many beads and carrying a kettle, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Four faces: a European, a Mongolian, an Ethiopian, and a profile of Samuel Johnson; three frontal silhouettes; three skulls of the same races seen from above (in the order European, Ethiopian and Mongolian). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.
  • An Algerian woman with a tattoo or henna design on her face, carrying a clay water pot against a studio backdrop.
  • A young woman with extensive scarification on her face, wearing a hat of foliage: front view. Photograph.
  • A young man of the Konyak Naga tribe, India, holding a human head. Photograph.
  • A Mrua medicine man or shaman with his assistants, Central Africa. Coloured wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
  • An African man wearing traditional beadwork. Albumen print.
  • Five nude African men, in front of a hut.
  • Three allegorical personifications of womankind. Coloured halftone, 1898, after A. Vignola, 1897.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Halftone.
  • A man posing on a pedestal, holding a club (?), in a photographic studio.
  • Female Flying Pigeon, a native American woman with plaits, wearing a pink dress with flower decor and shawl, necklaces and holding a feather fan. Colour lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1837.