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  • A Mughal Emperor or member of a royal family holding a turban ornament. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Marguerite Agniel posing with her back arched and feet in the air, wearing a two-piece costume and matching turban.
  • A Mughal courtier wearing a red turban and carrying a sword, dagger and shield. Watercolour drawing by an Indian artist.
  • A Mughal empress or member of a royal family holding a spear and turban ornament. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A Mughal emperor or member of a royal family holding a turban ornament: in profile. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A man wearing a turban and jewellery, holding a flower (?). Pouncing drawing, pencil with watercolour and bodycolour, Indian (?), 18--?.
  • An oriental horseman with a turban carrying a young and unconscious lady in his arms rides away from a scene of combat. Lithograph.
  • A boy, held by his mother, has an anal examination, performed by a man in a turban. Photograph, 1920/1960, of a Turkish drawing, 14--.
  • An old Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a saffron loincloth and turban and carrying a cloth bundle, pot and beads. Drawing, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Two Indian men: (left) wearing a mauve turban, in profile to right, and (right) holding poultry on a ceramic dish. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Marguerite Agniel posing with her back arched and legs stretched out over her head, wearing a two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio.
  • A group of men and women, some dressed in saris, and a man with a turban far right with a message in Indic about AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Two Indian men: (left) blowing a trumpet-like instrument and (right) an armless man tying a turban on his head with his feet. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two sisters in Georgia lament as their mother sells them to a bearded man wearing a turban, who is counting out money. Stipple engraving by H. Egleton, 1843, after T. Uwins.
  • A man in oriental dress and turban, restrained by fetters around his wrists is watching his lynx, which is attached to his wrists with a chain, kill a cockerel. Coloured etching.
  • A French tooth-drawer wearing a turban and pretending to be Turkish in order to attract clients, holding a large tooth and an enormous tooth extractor. Engraving by N. Dupuis after F. Eisen.
  • A French tooth-drawer wearing a turban and pretending to be Turkish in order to attract clients, holding a large tooth and an enormous tooth extractor. Engraving by N. Dupuis after F. Eisen.
  • The Munsong cinchona plantation, Kalimpong, Bengal, India: scraping cinchona bark (used to produce the anti-malarial drug quinine) from a tree; an Indian man in a turban and an Indian boy. Photograph, 1905/1920 (?).
  • Two Indian men: (left) with a tick sheet hood over his head and holding a long wooden stick, and (right) wearing a red turban and a yellow jacket. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A group of people sit around a table sharing a meal and a person in a turban sitting on a stool bends down to pick something out from a tray on the floor. Engraving.
  • Two people in Persia described as black slaves: a man wearing a turban with a staff in his hand, and a woman carrying a tea tray with a jug and cups. Engraving after C. de Bruyn.
  • A man has been knocked to the ground and is being beaten by a man wearing a long gown and a turban, the police nearby seem reluctant to intervene. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry.
  • Head of a turbaned man. Drawing, c. 1794, after N. Poussin.
  • A turbanned woodworker carving a crucifix. Wood engraving by W.J. Webb.
  • A semi-naked man resting against some rocks being tended by a man wearing a turban and beard with a horse on a pathway to the right; a woodcut illustration representing a man sick with AIDS receiving support; an AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS-sekretariatet, Sundhedsstyrelsen. Colour lithograph by Freddy Pedersen/Laursen, ca. 1995.
  • A young tearful woman looking up imploringly at a turbaned man who anxiously looks away. Black chalk drawing.
  • A man dressed in white with a blue turban holding a white sack greets a woman in a blue sari and her child on a rural road next to her hut; his horse and cart with further white sacks wait idle nearby; with a message about the dangers of having unprotected sex with foreign women; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • Two Sivites. Gouache drawing.
  • A barber is standing outside his shop in Cairo with the instruments of his trade in his hands.
  • Cowasjee, a man who had his nose reconstructed with the aid of plastic surgery. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter, 1795, after J. Wales.