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  • Obsidian blade mounted in ornamental handle, from Admiralty
  • Scraper of stone mounted in handle
  • A Scotsman with a rifle, sword and shield guarding barrels (of tobacco?). Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • Malta: the armoury of the Governor's Palace. Photograph by H. Agius, c. 1881.
  • A Scotsman with a rifle, sword and shield guarding barrels (of tobacco?). Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • Durga on her lotus with symbols surrounded and attended by devotees. Gouache drawing.
  • Museum of Arms, Vienna, Austria. Wood engraving by I. Heaviside, 1866, after B. Sly after T. Hansen.
  • A regal Mary (or Wisdom?), as the Church of the Last Judgement, flanked by angels. Line engraving by T. de Leu.
  • Crutch-like wooden flaking-tools used by American Indians
  • Manufacture of Stone implements, North American Indians.
  • Showing a device used by American Indians for holding stones
  • Manden bone tools used in the preparation of stone implements, North Dakota.
  • Manner of striking a stone where the edge is sharp to shew direct percussion.
  • Page 132: Bhairava with his attributes (a dog, a club and a bowl). Gouache painting.
  • Indirect percussion method practised by Apache Indians
  • Indirect percussion method practised by Wintun Indians of North America in manufacturing stone implements
  • Four young Maasai men, carrying spears, standing beside a train. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Sarawak: a line-up of armed Sarawak Rangers. Photograph.
  • Chinese carrying a wounded man on stretcher poles. Wood engraving.
  • Swazie witch-doctor, smelling out a sorcerer
  • A man posing on a pedestal, holding a club (?), in a photographic studio.
  • A man of an Amazonian tribe, holding a spear and wearing a feathered head-dress, in a photographic studio.
  • Bullock's Museum, (Egyptian Hall or London Museum), Piccadilly: the interior. Coloured aquatint, 1810.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Ustensiles en silex des habitants préhistoriques de l'ile de Rugen / Compagnie Liebig.
  • The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Ireland: recreation room. Reproduction of a photograph by C.H.S. after G.M. Roche.
  • Two rows of soldiers, English and Sikh. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Baillie Battery and Hospital: with soldiers parading the grounds. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after C.H. Mecham.
  • A child of an Amazonian Indian tribe, standing on a leopard skin, in a photographic studio.
  • Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Ustensiles en silex des habitants préhistoriques de l'ile de Rugen / Compagnie Liebig.
  • A ruler defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.