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  • Puri Indians by the Paraiba river, Brazil. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1821, after M. Zu Wied-Neuwied.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
  • Native Indians catching wild elephants by snaring their feet with ropes. Engraving by T Medland, ca 1800, after S Bey.
  • Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, 1839.
  • Jammadar, or head servant-in-waiting to either Europeans or Indians, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, ca. 1808-1812.
  • Las Casas sick with a fever being taken care of by two Peruvian indians. Tinted aquatint.
  • Indians on a coffee plantation washing in a lake and gathering together on the bank. Coloured lithograph by V. Adam, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.
  • Ojibeway and Potawatamie indians : the Walpole islanders at the Panopticon - from a photograph by Claudet.
  • Ojibeway and Potawatamie indians : the Walpole islanders at the Panopticon - from a photograph by Claudet.
  • Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians of North America. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, ca. 1843.
  • Peru : History of coca, "the divine plant" of the Incas / with an introductory account of the Incas, and of the Andean Indians of to-day, by W. Golden Mortimer.
  • Syringes with bulbs of natural rubber. These bulbs were made from rubber bottles made by the Indians of S. America and imported to Europe at the end of 18th or beginning of 19th century.
  • 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.
  • Illustrations of the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians; in a series of letters and notes. Written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing / With three hundred and sixty engravings, from the author's original paintings. By Geo. Catlin.
  • Northern expedition : just arrived from Baffin's Bay, to be seen, at no. 183 Piccadilly (opposite Burlington House,) the only two esquimaux indians, (male and female), brought to England from the frozen regions of the North ...
  • Just arrived from Bullock's Museum, the greatest novelty in Hull : to be seen, at no. 13 Queen-Street, the only two esquimaux indians, ever brought to this kingdom : mal;e and female, from the frozen regions of the North ...
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • Positively for this night only! : Surrey Theatre. This present Monday, the 12th of May, 1823, will be presented the highly-popular melo drama, taken from the play of the Mountaineers, Octavian, by a professional gentleman ... for this night only will be exhibited the two real esquimaux indians from the frozen regions where Captain Parry is making discoveries ...
  • The Indian Nectar, or, A discourse concerning Chocolata : Wherein the Nature of the Cacao-nut, and the other Ingredients of that Composition, is examined, and stated according to the Judgment and Experience of the Indians, and Spanish writers, who lived in the Indies, and others; with sundry additional Observations made in England: The ways of compounding and preparing Chocolata are enquired into; its Effects, as to its alimental and Venereal quality, as well as Medicinal (especially in Hypochondriacal Melancholy) are fully debated. Together with a Spagyrical Analysis of the Cacao-nut, performed by that excellent Chymist, Monsieur le Febure, Chymist to His Majesty. / By Henry Stubbe.
  • The Indian Nectar, or, A discourse concerning Chocolata : Wherein the Nature of the Cacao-nut, and the other Ingredients of that Composition, is examined, and stated according to the Judgment and Experience of the Indians, and Spanish writers, who lived in the Indies, and others; with sundry additional Observations made in England: The ways of compounding and preparing Chocolata are enquired into; its Effects, as to its alimental and Venereal quality, as well as Medicinal (especially in Hypochondriacal Melancholy) are fully debated. Together with a Spagyrical Analysis of the Cacao-nut, performed by that excellent Chymist, Monsieur le Febure, Chymist to His Majesty. / By Henry Stubbe.
  • Lobelia tupa L Campanulaceae Tabaco del Diablo [Devil's tobacco]. Distribution: Central Chile. Dried leaves are smoked as a hallucinogen by the Mapuchu Indians of Chile. It was also used as a respiratory stimulant. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • An Indian watchman. Drawing by an Indian artist.
  • Indian musical instruments. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • An Indian mandala. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • An Indian lady on a swing being pushed by another Indian woman. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • An Indian jeweller at work. Watercolour by an Indian artist.