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  • Zimbabwe: an African man standing in front of a hut, in a village near Umtali. Photograph by Sir William Crookes, 1905.
  • Buvuma, Uganda: a small, circular hut with a low grass-roof surrounded by lush vegetation, on a banana plantation. Photograph, 1902.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Seamen's Hospital for infectious diseases in Jurujuba, Rio de Janeiro; the landing and observation point for a small isolation hut. Photograph, 1904/1911.
  • A boy riding a saddled ostrich that is held in reins by another boy while a couple standing outside their hut watches on. Wood engraving.
  • Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: a landscape with a lake, palm trees and a hut with a pathway leading to it. Lithograph.
  • Plumbago auriculata Blume Plumbaginaceae Plumbago, Leadwort. Distribution: South Africa. It is used traditionally to treat warts, broken bones and wounds. It is taken as a snuff for headaches and as an emetic to dispel bad dreams. A stick of the plant is placed in the thatch of huts to ward off lightning.” Iwou (1993) reports other Plumbago species are used to cause skin blistering, treat leprosy, induce blistering, and to treat piles, parasites and to induce abortions. The genus name derives from the Latin for lead, but authors differ as to whether it was used as a treatment of lead poisoning, or that when it was used for eye conditions the skin turned the colour of lead. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Chippewa Indians camping at Shell Lakes, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Indian girl and baby and dog seated outside a hut. The baby is in an Indian carrier cradle.
  • A group of adults and children standing in a line outside a bamboo hut with a thatched roof: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Basra, Iraq: the Indian General Hospital: milk is served from large metal bowls to waiting men outside the Indian cook house (a straw hut). Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Three researchers outside the British experimental hut set up near Ostia to verify the mosquito-malaria theory. Coloured photograph of a pen drawing by A. Terzi, ca. 1900.
  • A pregnant woman carrying a child and bundle on her head approaches a hut in which another family sit having dinner: family life in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph, 1989.
  • A gazelle. Stipple engraving by Huet, the younger, after Huet, the older.
  • A llama. Stipple engraving by Huet, the younger, after Huet, the elder.
  • Krakatoa: plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) and coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in a forest clearing, with native man and his hut. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
  • A young woman is walking along a plank near a beach hut as another reads a book and the children play in the sand. Chromolithograph after John Leech, 1865.
  • A smiling couple in traditional Maldivian dress with a green hut and palm tree in the background with Maldivian (Divehi) lettering; an AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: a large hut with a straw roof has a chair outside and a table with a water barrel on it. Lithograph.
  • Formosan tribal peoples engaged in raising the thatched roof of a hut, mending fishing nets and tending lobster traps in a stream. Painting by a Taiwanese artist from around 1850.
  • A man in the jungle, holding a gun; two men carry the body of a woman towards a hut in the background. Wood engraving by H. Linton after V. Bromley, 1873.
  • The Kilwa area (Nanganachi village ?), Tanzania, East Africa: a Tanzanian man spit-roasting meat over an open fire in front of a grass hut. Photograph by Andrew Balfour, ca. 1910 (?).
  • A man and a woman of Norton Sound, Alaska, in front of their hut; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by B.T. Pouncy, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • The inside of a hut in a morai, place of burial and worship, in Atooi (Kauai); encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by E. Scott, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • A merino ram. Lithograph after N. Huet, the elder.
  • Notice to bathers : a penalty of forty shillings will be incurred: 1.-- By every person who shall bathe (otherwise than from a bathing machine or from a bathing hut), on any part of the Yarmouth sea beach ... / P. O'Connor, inspector.
  • A woman and her child on a packed mule. Etching by J. B. Huet.
  • A variety of methods of torture: a man has been rolled into a carpet and is dragged to death by a horse, a woman is hit with a rifle-butt and a man is tied to a post outside a hut. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker after B. Castelli.
  • A man carrying a blue sack tied around his shoulder and a grey pouch with a hut beyond in a rural setting; represention of a man leaving for another country to earn money not AIDS ; an advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • A gnu and two goats in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Lithograph by the brothers Lambert after Huet fils.