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  • An elephant and her calf ambushed by African men with spears. Lithograph.
  • Men engaged in various activities: walking, jumping, digging, throwing spears, stretching; sequences. Photographs.
  • Four young Maasai men, carrying spears, standing beside a train. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Two men carrying spears and a hunting horn in their pursuit of boar. Etching.
  • Men on horseback with spears and long lances are killing lions. Etching after Antonio Tempesta.
  • An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.
  • Hounds chasing otters into the reach of men holding spears in a river. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
  • Men with spears walking past tree with figures sitting in the shade. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • Four poles and spears decorated with the hand of Fatima, scarves and other items. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The execution of twelve mutineers at Peshawar; guards on horseback and guards holding spears; mountains in the background. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A vase-painting: a man holding two horizontal spears in his left hand receives an offering from a standing woman. Coloured engraving.
  • Men on horseback are goring bulls with spears, crowds of people are watching from the sidelines. Engraving after Jan van der Straet.
  • An elephant fight, with a few men holding spears with sparkling fires at one end. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A five-member family within a shield in front of 2 crossed spears: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Judas kisses Jesus under a forest of flags, spears and lanterns; Peter cuts off the ear of Malchus. Aquatint with etching by C.M. Metz after B. Tisi, il Garofalo.
  • Above, red-figured Greek wine-mixing bowl (bell-krater); below, detail of the decoration showing a woman and two naked men with spears and a shield. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • A crocodile hunt, showing a group of bare-chested hunters and their dogs in an exotic landscape, attacking a crocodile with spears and stakes. Engraving by P. P. Moles, 1773, after a painting by F. Boucher, 1739.
  • Two personified purple condoms cross spears behind the word 'AIDS' as the silhouette figures of a family look on through a window in a house beyond; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Committee on AIDS Hanoi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Detail of a frieze decorating a Greek black-figured column krater representing a group of naked men with spears and dogs hunting a wild boar; principal scene of the "Hunt krater", made in Corinth ca. 570 B.C.. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • A giant holding up a boulder with a landscape on which eleven human figures are dancing and three are sitting with vessels out of which streams of water flow, while around the giant's legs are attacking male figures armed with spears. Etching by M. Klinger, 1912.
  • A giant holding up a boulder with a landscape on which eleven human figures are dancing and three are sitting with vessels out of which streams of water flow, while around the giant's legs are attacking male figures armed with spears. Etching by M. Klinger, 1912.
  • A giant holding up a boulder with a landscape on which eleven human figures are dancing and three are sitting with vessels out of which streams of water flow, while around the giant's legs are attacking male figures armed with spears. Etching by M. Klinger, 1912.
  • A gloved hand spears an artist's easel (?) on which sit the block words 'AIDS', representing an advertisement for an art auction in support of AIDS by the National AIDS Foundation on 15 November 1988 at the Panorama Restaurant, in Cologne with a preview at Art Cologne from 10th 1o 15th November. Colour lithograph by Hans-Peter Adamski.
  • Bronze tanged spear-head.
  • Bronze socketed spear-head.
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