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  • Four goldsmiths making goblets, necklaces etc. from gold and silver. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
  • Two women with elaborate hairstyles and necklaces (designated as Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon) and two others wearing hats and fancy dress (Punch and his wife Joan). Coloured wood engraving.
  • Female Flying Pigeon, a native American woman with plaits, wearing a pink dress with flower decor and shawl, necklaces and holding a feather fan. Colour lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1837.
  • 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.
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Pearl Necklace' pox
  • 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.