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  • Sri Lankan mask. Blue face with stiped head-dress.
  • Sri Lankan mask with a demon's face and ear-pieces.
  • Sri Lankan mask with a demon's face and ear-pieces.
  • Sri Lankan mask, demon's face, ear-pieces and flame headdress
  • Sri Lankan mask, demon's face, ear-pieces and flame headdress
  • Sri Lankan mask, demon's face, ear-pieces and flame headdress
  • Sri Lankan mask, demon's face, ear-pieces and flame headdress
  • Sri Lankan mask with blue coloured face and tall red hat.
  • Japanese soldier wearing an anti-plague face mask. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Procedures for using a protective face mask in civil defence: four figures. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Six soldiers demonstrating putting a gas mask on over the face. "To show stages in adjustment of a SBR".
  • Yellow fever: a scientist wearing a face mask works at a laboratory bench with bunsen burners and microscopes. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).
  • Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa: man in heavy apron, face mask and glove, possibly holding x-ray plate, standing aside seated male. Photograph, c. 1905.
  • Two young men are approached by a prostitute: she is a clothed skeleton holding a made-up mask in front of her face, representing syphilis. Lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
  • Two young men are approached by a prostitute: she is a clothed skeleton holding a made-up mask in front of her face, representing syphilis. Lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
  • Yellow fever: two scientists wearing face masks at work in a laboratory. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).
  • Yellow fever: two scientists wearing face masks at work in a laboratory. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).
  • Two men in drag wearing face masks and patterned robes, holding fans. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • Two men in drag wearing face masks and patterned robes, holding fans. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • Two men wearing face masks, another with his arm over his mouth: preventing the spread of tuberculosis in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by Desalegn Worku for USAID and TB/CTA, ca. 2000.
  • Rows of the faces of women, some with death masks, representing women with AIDS; advertisment for free HIV/AIDS tests by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Colour lithograph by Kerr and Malley, 1992.
  • A dentist and nurse tending a patient in a chair, a woman holding up a test tube filled with blood and three surgeons in green coats and face masks; a warning about the dangers of contaminated blood and transmission of the AIDS disease. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony: three Navajos in ceremonial dress with faces masked. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony: three Navajos in ceremonial dress with faces masked. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • Two men facing each other holding phone receivers wearing white masks to imply confidentiality; an advertisement for an AIDS helpline for gay men in Peru. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Two masks showing physiognomies expressing complaisance (left) and probity (right). Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Death mask of Jean Conradin Heidegger, Bürgermeister of Zurich. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.