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  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • A physician informing a young woman and her mother that she is pregnant, a servant is listening at the door. Engraving by T. Holloway.
  • A Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • An African medicine man operating on a man's hand. Coloured engraving.
  • A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
  • A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • Sarawak: interior of a Kadayan tribal house, with a meal laid out. Photograph.
  • A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
  • An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
  • A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A Binsa sorcerer or shaman, Congo. Halftone.
  • A woman being tortured by being strapped naked onto a horse and dragged through a town. Wood engraving after G. Durand.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • The Queen's levée and society figures drinking the waters in the pump room with a key to important society figures, Bath. Line engraving by W.J. Alais, 1817, after Mr. Marsh.
  • A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.
  • A Japanese doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Halftone after a photograph by Messrs. Kajima & Suwo.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.
  • Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks. Photograph.
  • A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.
  • Medical and surgical treatments for a lame princess and others. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1849/1852.
  • Medical and surgical treatments for a lame princess and others. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1849/1852.
  • Medical and surgical treatments for a lame princess and others. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1849/1852.
  • A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving.