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  • Free at Tesco with Princes Alaska salmon... / Princes Limited.
  • Free at Tesco with Princes Alaska salmon... / Princes Limited.
  • An Ahtena Indian medicine man of Alaska. Coloured photograph, ca. 1913.
  • New Eddystone Rock near Ketchikan, Alaska. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1820.
  • A man and woman representing a warning about sexually transmitted diseases among Alaska Natives and native Americans; advertisement for local health clinics and the National Native American AIDS Hotline by the Alaska Native Health Board. Colour lithograph by Cliff Hiatt, 1990.
  • Portrait of Father William Duncan, founder of Metlakahtla Indian mission in Alaska, and friend of Henry Wellcome.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: logs from a range of Mississippi trees displayed outside the Alaska building. Photograph, 1904.
  • Men at Unalaska, Alaska, in canoes; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by W. Angus, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Alaska: an Inuit medicine man wearing furs, a mask and oversized model hands, standing on the porch of a wooden building with a sick boy. Photograph, 19--.
  • Snug Corner cove, in Prince William's Sound (Alaska); encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780) Engraving by W. Ellis after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
  • A woman from Prince William's Sound (Alaska), head and shoulders; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780) Engraving by J. Basire after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
  • A man from Prince William's Sound (Alaska), head and shoulders; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780) Engraving by J. Basire after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
  • Interior of a house occupied by men, women and children in Unalaska, Alaska, visited by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • A man and a woman of Norton Sound, Alaska, in front of their hut; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by B.T. Pouncy, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • An Alaskan man sitting on a red Honda 4-wheeler motorbike representing a man looking for a lover; warning about the risk of AIDS by the Alaska Native Health Board. Colour lithograph by Sam Kimura, 1992.
  • People from Unalaska, Alaska, and one of their huts, with canoes and fishing equipment; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Etching by J. Hall and S. Middiman, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • A woman wearing a red coat with a white fur collar holding a husky in a field representing a woman looking for a lover; warning about the risk of AIDS by the Alaska Native Health Board. Colour lithograph by Sam Kimura.
  • Spirit canoe, Alaska. Among the Kwakiutle people of British Columbia it was customary to release a spirit canoe in the water, when a body was buried near a shore, in order to send the soul or spirit of the dead person on its journey.
  • Tellima grandiflora (Pursh)Lindl. Saxifragaceae Distribution: Western North America from Alaska to California. The Native American Skagit tribe from Washington State, used it to improve appetite. The Nitinaht used it to stop having dreams of sexual intercourse with the dead (Moerman, 1998), Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A painted head with long black hair and a brown profile representing a Cherokee Indian; warning about AIDS issued by the Cherokee Health Delivery. Colour lithograph by Waylon Sequoyah.
  • Postcard showing Rev. Wm Duncan, Metlakahtla Church...
  • Henry Wellcome and William Duncan, Metlakaht
  • Schuchert's Outlines of Historical Geology
  • Carved and painted wooden mask.
  • Sculptures d'Afrique, d'Amerique, d'Oceanie
  • Rubus spectabilis 'Olympic Double'
  • The naked body of a child amidst empty bottles in a rubbish tip with a warning about the need to fight alcholism and AIDS. Colour lithograph by Shenoa Egawa Poster Designs, 1994, for the Seattle Indian Health Board.
  • Hand of M.H. G[lyn?]: radiograph. Photograph by Sir G.P. Glyn, ca. 1896.