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  • Siam (Thailand): the tonsurate ceremony of Prince Chulalongkorn, day 2. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam (Thailand): the tonsurate ceremony of Prince Chulalongkorn, day 2. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: immersion ceremony at the Holy Well. Wood engraving by H. Lanos.
  • Siam (Thailand): the tonsurate ceremony of Prince Chulalongkorn, day 1. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam (Thailand): the tonsurate ceremony of Prince Chulalongkorn, day 1. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Kirikoraha ceremony. The shaman examines the offering of coconut milk (henebedda) racks the sambar (henebedda).
  • A Chinese ceremony with tea and rice bowls. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Instruments and sacred objects to perform a Jewish circumcision ceremony. Engraving, 1741, after B. Picart, 1725.
  • Instruments and sacred objects to perform a Jewish circumcision ceremony. Engraving, 1741, after B. Picart, 1725.
  • Two Australian aborigines performing a ceremony with a magical stick to make another person ill. Halftone.
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony: three Navajos in ceremonial dress with faces masked. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony: three Navajos in ceremonial dress with faces masked. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • Opening ceremony for a new operating theatre at the London Hospital. Drawing by G.K. Jones, 1892.
  • A thanksgiving ceremony of the Allied armies on the Square of Louis XV in Paris. Coloured aquatint.
  • IX International Congress of the History of Medicine, Bucharest, 1932: speakers at the opening ceremony. Photograph, 1932.
  • Curing ceremony among the Iroquois people. From photographs by the Buffalo Museum of Science, U.S.A.
  • An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.
  • Christ's Hospital: the Great Hall during a ceremony. Engraving by J. G. Walker, 1822, after T. Stothard, 1799.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: the ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the new wing. Wood engraving, 1864.
  • A Chinese religious ceremony with seven women kneeling on the ground. Brush drawing by Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • The wedding ceremony of two deaf and dumb people conducted in sign language. Process print after H. Ash.
  • Siam (Thailand): Mount Krailas, Bangkok, during the tonsurate ceremony of Prince Chulalongkorn, day 3. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam (Thailand): Mount Krailas, Bangkok, during the tonsurate ceremony of Prince Chulalongkorn, day 3. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Merton College, Oxford: a marriage ceremony in the chapel. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck, 1813, after A.C. Pugin.
  • A priest performing a ceremony on board a ship containing the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte. Lithograph by J. Arnout.
  • Three scenes: a woman undergoing a trial for adultery, a Jewish burial and circumcision ceremony. Etching after a woodcut, 1682.
  • Three scenes: a woman undergoing a trial for adultery, a Jewish burial and circumcision ceremony. Etching after a woodcut, 1682.
  • Three scenes: a woman undergoing a trial for adultery, a Jewish burial and circumcision ceremony. Etching after a woodcut, 1682.
  • A marriage ceremony is conducted in a church with the couple holding hands and the guests looking on intently. Engraving.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the Prince and Princess of Wales at the opening ceremony for the new surgery. Photograph, c.1907.