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  • Exhibition: Primitive Medicine.
  • Sarawak: interior of a Kadayan tribal house, with a meal laid out. Photograph.
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: aetiology
  • Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: four Kayan people collecting gutta percha from a tree trunk. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: the supporting poles of a Kayan tribal house and a Sea Dayak house under construction. Photograph.
  • A tarsier climbing up a tree. Etching.
  • A proboscis monkey holding on to a tree with its right arm while holding a fruit in its left arm. Coloured etching by J. Pass after J. E. Ihle.
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine, figures
  • Sir Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak. Photograph by Bassano.
  • Combs, of various origins.
  • Three monkeys: capuchin, probosus and negro. Etching by T. Landseer.
  • M0000038: Palang (ampallang) beneath a photograph of it in use
  • M0000038: Palang (ampallang) beneath a photograph of it in use
  • M0000038: Palang (ampallang) beneath a photograph of it in use
  • M0000038: Palang (ampallang) beneath a photograph of it in use
  • Fairy fly (Himopolynema), parasitoid wasp
  • Parasitoid wasp Wallaceaphytis kikiae, LM.
  • Two roundels about John Gidley, a London surgeon. Etching.
  • N. Ganguli. Photograph by L.J. Bruce-Chwatt.
  • Leonurus cardiaca (Motherwort)
  • Treating blankets with insecticide
  • Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Coloured etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1818.
  • Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • Three means to gain God's mercy: fasting, prayer and alms, which cause the heart of man to fly towards God. Engraving attributed to T. Galle, 1601.
  • Advice on hygiene for Republican soldiers in the Spanish Civil War. Lithograph, 1937/1938.
  • Vitex agnus-castus (Chasteberry tree).
  • The adoration of the magi: a king kneels before the infant Jesus, seated on Mary's lap. Engraving by E. Fessard after C.J. Natoire.
  • Cristobal Lozano presents to Pope Alexander VII an engraving of a mountain transformed into a statue of a man. Engraving by F. Spierre after Pietro da Cortona.
  • A man is packing coffers on to a horse while an ass is lying dead and flayed in the background; illustration of a fable. Etching by D. Stoop.