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  • A Fakir man and wife of south India. Gouache painting.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A fakir or sadhu. Photograph by E.D. Lyon.
  • Fakir belonging to a sect known for occasional nudity, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Fakir's Rock on the river Ganges, near Sultanganj, Bihar: south west view. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1800.
  • Hindu fakir with one shoe and half a moustache, Calcutta. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Benares, India: a fakir sitting on a bed of nails. Photograph by R.C. Mazumdar, ca. 1900 (?).
  • Benares, India: a fakir sitting on a bed of nails. Photograph by R.C. Mazumdar, ca. 1900 (?).
  • Hindu fakir with one shoe and half a moustache, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • A fakir (mendicant monk) or holy man, holding up a bowl of fire. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • Two fakirs, Hindu or Muslim mendicant monks, holding bells. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Sri Chaitanya and Gorind Chunder Rai flanked by two devotees. Transfer lithograph.
  • The devout Hindu doth meat eschew, he'll live on milk and so could you / National Milk Publicity Council.
  • The devout Hindu doth meat eschew, he'll live on milk and so could you / National Milk Publicity Council.
  • A Hindu man (sadhu) with long hair, cloak and walking stick stands by a rock from which water springs. Lithograph by L.C. Dickinson, 1844, after Emily Eden.
  • Men and women in India performing various kinds of penance and mortification.. Etching by Giuseppe Filosi.
  • [Undated handbill advertising "the Aïssaouas' snake and scorpion eaters" ].
  • The serpent sacrifice. Chromolithograph.
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: with a rod piercing his cheeks, and holding some ceremonial objects. Wood engraving, ca. 1890 (?).