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  • A Nayar lady with distinctive hairstyle. Chromolithograph.
  • Strand of human hair from a white Caucasian, AFM
  • A woman of Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, dressing another woman's hair. Wood engraving by A.B., 1887, after E. Bayard.
  • Human hair (Caucasian descent), SEM
  • A maid playing with a baby on her knee points out its curly hair to the visiting doctor; he replies that the mother was in curling tongs when she gave birth. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A heavily jewelled Mahalakshmi with two parrots. Coloured transfer lithograph by A.R. Raghunath, 1897.
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Human hair with follicle attached (Chinese origin), SEM
  • A man receiving a shave and a hair cut at the barbers representing the dangers of using unsterilised sharp instruments and contracting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement in Maldivian by the Department of Public Health, Maldives. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • South Africa: a Pondo man attends to the hairstyle of a fellow man. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • A barber in Rouen dressing a man's hair. Coloured engraving by G.R. Lewis after himself.
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Knot in hair
  • Knot in hair
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Two barbers: Peter Paul Magnus (above) and Nardus of Naples (below). Line engraving.
  • Knot in human blonde hair
  • Hair brain sculpture