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  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Pearl Necklace' pox
  • Amuletic necklace worn to cure bronchitis, Woolwich, London.
  • Amuletic necklace worn to cure bronchitis, Woolwich, London.
  • Amuletic necklace worn to cure bronchitis, Woolwich, London.
  • Amuletic necklace, Bear claws and red trade beads.
  • Advertisement for 'the anodyne necklace' recomended by Dr. Chamberlen.
  • An amuletic necklace worn to cure sore throats, London.
  • An amuletic necklace worn to cure sore throats, London.
  • An amuletic necklace worn to cure sore throats, London.
  • A young woman wearing a necklace of beads and a checked skirt. Photograph.
  • An overweight teenage girl, with a pearl necklace, sitting on a tricycle. Process print.
  • An African medicine man wearing an elaborate necklace and head-dress. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Africa: a man wearing a hat and large metal and yarn necklace. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.
  • A Sicilian boy, head and shoulders, with a necklace of coins. Photograph by W. von Gloeden, 1900.
  • A Mughal empress or member of a royal family holding a necklace. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Eddie, a man in drag poses for a close-up, wearing a pearl necklace and styled hair. Photographic postcard, ca. 1925.
  • Eddie, a man in drag poses for a close-up, wearing a pearl necklace and styled hair. Photographic postcard, ca. 1925.
  • An amuletic necklace of glass beads. The pattern of onlain circles resembling eyes acts as protection against the evil eye, Hebron, Palestine.
  • An amuletic necklace of glass beads. The pattern of onlain circles resembling eyes acts as protection against the evil eye, Hebron, Palestine.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with plugs distorting his ears and a necklace indicating the number of heads he has cut off. Photograph.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with a necklace indicating that he has cut off a man's head. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.
  • Spanish lantern; animal products. Bone objects (including necklace for teething); small mammal's jawbone; 2 salt-codfish jawbones, cock's spur, bezoar, fishes earbones, and equine 'chetsnuts', badges paw.
  • Vyaghrapada, a maharishi with the head and torso of a man and legs and tail of a tiger, holding a necklace and a dish. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Ma-hos-kah (White Cloud), a chief of the Iowa tribe, with facial tattooes and a bear's claw necklace. Coloured lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1837.
  • Shaumonekusse, a chief of the Oto (Otoe) tribe, wearing a crown hair piece with horns, a bear-claw necklace and a medallion. Coloured lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1833.
  • Shaumonekusse, a chief of the Oto (Otoe) tribe, wearing a crown hair piece with horns, a bear-claw necklace and a medallion. Colour lithograph by C. G. Childs after C. B. King, 1833.
  • A woman with twisted plaits, wearing a necklace of coloured condoms, holds up a condom packet with a smile; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by Gapa RS. Colour lithograph by Sandra Bordin, ca. 1996.
  • A woman's hand holding a condom between her finger and thumb with a necklace and a warning that the priority is to protect yourself; safer sex advertisement by MAPS (Massachusetts Association of Portuguese Speakers). Colour lithograph.
  • A naked man wearing a necklace with one hand on his chest and the message in German ''show posture'; an advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA and Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Lithograph, 1990.
  • A woman wearing a necklace bearing the words 'sex', an off-the-shoulder top and holding a paint spray can; two men in caps, one bearing the letters 'CRIPS' stand behind with graffiti and pink condoms between; an advertisement by CRIPS with the help of the Ministère de la Culture. Colour lithograph by Marko, 1993.