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  • Parsee women wearing saris: group portrait. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Hong Kong: the Parsee Cemetery, Happy Valley. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • Bombay (Mumbai): a Parsee (Parsi) "Tower of silence" where the bodies of the dead are exposed to vultures. Photograph.
  • A Parsee or Zoroastrian funeral: the body is viewed by a dog, before being exposed on a tower to be eaten by vultures. Engraving after B. Picart, 1727.
  • A dying Parsee with a small dog held with its muzzle to his mouth, to receive his departing soul. Engraving attributed to C. du Bosc after B. Picart, ca. 1730.
  • A Zoroastrian baptism in Persia. Etching after B. Picart.
  • An Indian man wearing a Parsi string and make-up, squatting on a rug with his hand in a rosary bag, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • The parable of the mote and the beam. Oil painting by Minus (Minas) M. Zorab, 1880.
  • Birds living around a stone breakwater shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.