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  • The "Peruvian harpy": a harpy with two tails, horns, fangs, winged ears, and long wavy hair. Coloured etching.
  • Ann Davis, a woman with smallpox and horns growing out of her head. Stipple engraving by T. Woolnoth, 1806.
  • Two African oxen with huge horns standing on a hillside. Etching by C. Heath, ca 1814, after H. Salt.
  • Africa: a display of Zulu shields, mats, pillows, smoking horns, monchies, spoons, baskets, tschinala and amas pots, and beadwork. Albumen print.
  • A green demon with two horns, tied in a white sheet and floating in the sky. Painting by a Chinese painter.
  • A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).
  • A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).
  • The "Peruvian harpy": a harpy with two tails, horns, fangs, winged ears and long wavy hair. Etching attributed to L.A. Boutelou, 1784.
  • A fox jumps out of a well by climbing on the horns of a goat inside; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.
  • Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.
  • Above, a cockrel (crax rubra); below, an asian pheasant of the genus tragopan, with fleshy horns on its head. Engraving by Manceaux after E. Traviès.
  • Men with horns and tails dance around the fire they are condemned to be burnt alive on and spit at a prelate standing nearby. Etching.
  • 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.
  • The death of Dirke (Dirce): her stepsons Zetos (Zethos) and Amphion tie her by her hair to the horns of a bull and have her flung into a well. Engraving, 1633.
  • Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant with seed-pods resembling the horns of a bull, and (below) a bull's head. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.
  • Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant (clover) with leaves resembling the horns of a goat, and (below) a goat's head. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.
  • A man is selling horns from his basket, as emblems of cuckoldry: husbands reply that they will not buy any because they already have plenty. Engraving by Frs. Hubert after Le Nain (?).
  • Shaumonekusse, a chief of the Oto (Otoe) tribe, wearing a crown hair piece with horns, a bear-claw necklace and a medallion. Coloured lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1833.
  • 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.
  • English commerce is shown as a cow milked by the Dutch, the horns sawn off by the Americans and its milk drunk by the French and the Spanish, while an Englishman wrings his hands at this distressing sight. Etching, ca. 1780.
  • Three sea monsters with devils horns and tails attempt to attack a submarine in the form of a condom in which a couple can be seen kissing through the port hole; an AIDS prevention advertisement for families. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A man pulling a condom over his body to protect himself from an approaching man wearing a grass skirt and devil's horns representing a personification of the AIDS disease; he holds a spear that breaks on impact with the condom; an advertisement for the AIDS Awareness Programme by the Pache Trust in Madurai, India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Eye-glasses. Horn-rims, bridge metal wrapped, with horn or leather, probably French.
  • Cup of Rhinoceros Horn
  • Horn rimmed spectacles, 4 types.
  • Sebaceous horn on the neck
  • Cow's Horn used for infant feeding
  • Cow's Horn used for infant feeding
  • Cow's Horn used for infant feeding
  • Illustration: dog's uterine horn & ovary