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  • Africa, the Dinka tribe, Bahr-El-Chazal. A group (long legs) East side of the Nile.
  • A child of an Amazonian Indian tribe, standing on a leopard skin, in a photographic studio.
  • Moaz-Kida (Shooting Cedar), a member of the Winnebago tribe. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1899.
  • Tsaxcoomipa or Big Painted Lodge, a medicine man of the Blackfeet tribe. Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn, 1926.
  • Tsaxcoomipa or Big Painted Lodge, a medicine man of the Blackfeet tribe. Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn, 1926.
  • Hei Miao, Three fierce fighting men from the Hei Miao (Black Miao) tribe being appeased by three women.
  • South Africa: the circumcision dance of the Magwamba tribe, Northern Transvaal. Photograph by H.F. Gros, ca. 1888.
  • An African chief of the Barotsi tribe smoking his pipe which is held by a woman. Wood-engraving.
  • Tatooing in Abyssinia, two women of the Gurag' Tribe. Blue colouring matter is applied in the form of bracelets and rings to the hand and wrist. A needle or small brush is used.
  • A man of an Amazonian tribe, holding a spear and wearing a feathered head-dress, in a photographic studio.
  • Four missionaries and a child are looking at an African tribe from a distance. Drawing by H.G., 18--.
  • Four missionaries and a child are looking at an African tribe from a distance. Drawing by H.G., 18--.
  • Four missionaries and a child are looking at an African tribe from a distance. Drawing by H.G., 18--.
  • A man and woman of the Toda tribe standing in a photographic studio, with a dog lying at their feet.
  • A human skull, decorated by the Konyak Nagas tribe, India: front view. Photograph by John Henry Hutton, ca. 1929 (?).
  • A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • Arequipa, Peru: ten corpses inside a chulpa (mausoleum) among the Aymara tribe. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after Edouard Riou, 1873.
  • An Aboriginal medicine man or shaman from the Kakadu tribe sucking the illness from a patient. Process print after B. Spencer, 1914.
  • Genuine Dalmatian insect powder for the destruction of insects : quite harmless to animal life but effectually destroys every tribe of insect.
  • Genuine Dalmatian insect powder for the destruction of insects : quite harmless to animal life but effectually destroys every tribe of insect.
  • Uganda: the bandaged leg of a member of the Lango tribe, possibly suffering from yaws. Photograph by Cecil John Hackett, ca. 1937.
  • Genuine Dalmatian insect powder for the destruction of insects : quite harmless to animal life but effectually destroys every tribe of insect.
  • Eagle of Delight, a native American woman of the Oto (Otoe) tribe. Coloured lithograph by Childs & Inman after C. B. King, 1833.
  • Nubian Females: Kanoosee Tribe. Philae. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
  • Uganda: the swollen and bandaged toes of a member of the Lango tribe, possibly suffering from yaws. Photograph by Cecil John Hackett, ca. 1937.
  • Assam: boys of the Konyak Naga tribe, showing the effect of tight waist-belts made of cane. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with plugs distorting his ears and a necklace indicating the number of heads he has cut off. Photograph.
  • Assam: a burial place of the Konyak Naga tribe, with heads placed in sandstone hollows above ground. Photograph attributed to Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.
  • Hong Miao. A woman and a boy, from the Hong Miao (Red Miao) tribe, carrying food while two men are probably on their way to the fields
  • Besharah, of the Beni Said tribe, a member of the artists' travelling party in Egypt, Sinai and Akabah. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.