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  • Assam, India: a pond surrounded by dense vegetation and trees. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Assam, India: a river with dense vegetation and trees on its banks. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Charingia, Assam, India: kala-azar patients; a group of men, women and children. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Assam, India: a village of grass-roofed houses surrounded by palm trees, enclosed by a bamboo fence. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Assam, India: bamboo fencing in the foreground; dense vegetation and a grass-roofed shelter in the background. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Assam, India: an Indian man and woman, wearing simple robes, with their two small children, outside a grass-roofed house. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Assam, India: an Indian woman collects water in a bowl from a small pond; a washing line and a grass-roofed house in the background. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • A kalar-azar treatment centre, Charingia, Assam, India: Indian patients are grouped outside a row of grass-roofed buildings; a motorcar is parked outside one building. Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).
  • Assam, India: a narrow wooden bridge over a river; a car is on the road in the distance; an Indian man stands to one side of the bridge. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • The Kalar-Azar Commission Camp field laboratory, Golaghat, Assam, India: a small, white boy in a large hat stands at the camp entrance; grass-roofed buildings with Indian men in the background. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).
  • Assam, India: a kala-azar out-patient centre: a small group of men, women and children sit beneath a grass-roofed shelter with some metal bowls (for heating water for sterilisation ?). Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Kalyo Kengyu, northern India: human heads hung up as trophies in a Naga village. Photograph.
  • Trophies of a headhunter's house of the Chang Naga tribe, India, including human skulls. Photograph.
  • Assam: a Konyak Naga boy with a head-hunter's tattoo. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.
  • Assam: a Chang Naga man with a head-hunter's tattoo. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with a necklace indicating that he has cut off a man's head. 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.
  • A young man of the Konyak Naga tribe, India, holding a human head. Photograph.
  • Pilgrims with roses worship a snake shrine while a Brahmin priest and attendants pray during a snake festival. Gouache drawing.
  • Pilgrims with roses worship a snake shrine while a Brahmin priest and attendants pray during a snake festival. Gouache drawing.