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  • Jewellery and decorative items. Albumen print.
  • Swazi witchdoctors wearing animal skins and jewellery. Photograph, 1910/1930.
  • A young Masai woman, wearing much jewellery. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A young Masai woman, full length, wearing much jewellery. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A man is sitting at a work bench making jewellery. Wood engraving.
  • A jeweller displaying samples of his jewellery. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A maidservant holding a jewellery box. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A European woman in Mughal costume and jewellery. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • South Africa: Zulu men wearing penis sheaths and ornamental jewellery. Photograph, ca. 1910 (?).
  • A European (?) woman wearing Mughal costume and jewellery. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Galle, Sri Lanka: jewellers in traditional dress displaying their jewellery on a table. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • South Africa: Zulu women, bare-chested and wearing ornamental jewellery, posing outside a mud hut. Photograph, 1880/1890.
  • The heads of five women with ringletted hair dressed with jewellery and flowers. Coloured lithograph by Michelet, 1865.
  • Rebecca admires the clothes and jewellery given to her by Abraham's servant. Watercolour painting by Juliana Howard, 1824.
  • The heads of five women wearing high chignons dressed with flowers, feathers and jewellery. Coloured lithograph by E.T.
  • A man wearing a turban and jewellery, holding a flower (?). Pouncing drawing, pencil with watercolour and bodycolour, Indian (?), 18--?.
  • Ani Chokyi, a Sikkimese/Tibetan woman resident in Darjeeling, wearing elaborate jewellery, costume and head-piece. Photograph by T. Paar, ca. 1890.
  • The heads of five women wearing an assortment of head-dresses made up of caps, feathers, flowers and jewellery. Coloured lithograph, 1864.
  • An European (?) woman wearing Indian clothes and jewellery sitting on a chair, holding a flower. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • The heads of four women with ringletted hair dressed with ribbons, jewellery and flowers; three details of hair-pieces. Coloured lithograph by Michelet, 1865.
  • The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons, flowers, jewellery and a blue-bird. Coloured line block, 1876.
  • The heads and shoulders of three women with plaited and ringletted hair dressed with beads, ribbons and jewellery; five plaited and ringletted hair-pieces. Coloured lithograph, 1865.
  • The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons decorated with jewellery. Coloured line block, 1875, after A. Max (?).
  • The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons decorated with ribbons, feathers, flowers and jewellery. Coloured line block, 1876.
  • An Indian man wearing elaborate jewellery and make-up, squatting in front of a small table on which is a shrine, perhaps in a temple. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Above, a Greek red-figured water-jar (hydria); below, detail of the decoration showing a woman offering jewellery to a winged seated figure. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons decorated with feathers, flowers and jewellery. Coloured line block, 1875, after A. Max (?).
  • The heads and shoulders of five women wearing their hair dressed with flowers, butterflies, feathers, jewellery and a hat; two bodices with embroidery and four collars. Coloured line block, 1863, by Thiery (?).
  • A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.
  • Nepal; Sherpa porters in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpa porters prepare for a trekking expedition organised for a party of western vacationists. They will guide, bring up the rear, cook and strike camp. Such expeditions pay cash wages far in excess of anything Sherpas could hope to earn elsewhere and such income is invested in loans, cattle, land, tradeable articles and jewellery. Until the influx of mountaineering expeditions following Hillary's Everest climb (1953), western medicine was unknown in the Khumbu. Distribution of mainly analgesic and antibiotic drugs has led to misuse.