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  • WMS OR Chinese MS 103
  • Lolo tribsemen, one of the non-Han ethnic groups in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces of south China. Noted for horsemanship and archery.
  • Melville island man and a larakia woman
  • Bangongo or Magician, who discovers by divination suitable methods of treatment, Congo.
  • Crutch-like wooden flaking-tools used by American Indians
  • Manufacture of Stone implements, North American Indians.
  • Showing a device used by American Indians for holding stones
  • Manden bone tools used in the preparation of stone implements, North Dakota.
  • Manner of striking a stone where the edge is sharp to shew direct percussion.
  • Pipe, argillite shale, very fine carving with intricately interlacing totemic figures of animals and supernatural creatures. Collected by the late Mr. George Roberts of Hudson's bay company. Haida Indians, North West Coast of America, Queen Charlotte Islands.
  • Seat supported by standing figures and elephant heads, the back of leopards, with 2 figures riding leopards as side supports. Grasslands, possibly Bali, Cameroons, West Africa.
  • Indirect percussion method practised by Apache Indians
  • Indirect percussion method practised by Wintun Indians of North America in manufacturing stone implements
  • Rain charms- DOIOM from Expeditions to the Torres Straits
  • Swazie witch-doctor, smelling out a sorcerer
  • White River Apache Medicine Man and other images.
  • Oubangui-Chari girl, French Equatorial Africa.
  • Ge Guoluo (Ge Lolo) family carrying loads. The woman holds a spindle in her hand to indicate that the tribe uses the fibres of the ge plant for spinning, from .
  • Pozi (Poren) looking civilized.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show their heads.
  • Lama. Two monks of the Lama tribe selling beads.
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • Hei Guoluo (Black Lolo) family, possibly on their way to market.
  • Amuletic necklet, made of bones of relative, Andaman Islands
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of square plaques, decorated.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show their heads.
  • Bai Sharen couple on a hunting and fishing trip.
  • Map of Huoqing zhou, in Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan Provonce. The Poyi live in the Huoqing area. The pictorial map shows the walled city in the centre. The places in the surroundings are tagged by their Chinese names.
  • Nuzi hunting with bow and arrow