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  • A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.
  • Head and shoulders of a hideous old woman wearing an escoffin over a wimple. Colour stipple engraving by B. Pastorini, 1806, after L. da Vinci.
  • A character in the play "The widdow Ranter": Semernia, a Native American queen, with two pageboys. Mezzotint by W. Vincent.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A woman (possibly intended to be African) with pouting lips in elaborate head gear. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776 (?), after himself.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A physiognomist whose body is entirely made up of faces, sitting at a table diagnosing people's physiognomic characteristics with the help of a book. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley after G. Spratt, 1831.
  • A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • Three scenes: a woman undergoing a trial for adultery, a Jewish burial and circumcision ceremony. Etching after a woodcut, 1682.
  • An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • The eldest son of the King of Delhi accompanied by his physician and treasurer. Wood engraving after W. Carpenter.
  • A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.
  • Shanghai, China: a woman wearing a velvet snood. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Shanghai, China: a woman wearing a velvet snood. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Three scenes: a woman undergoing a trial for adultery, a Jewish burial and circumcision ceremony. Etching after a woodcut, 1682.
  • Cowasjee, a man who had his nose reconstructed with the aid of plastic surgery. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter, 1795, after J. Wales.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • Cowasjee, a man who had his nose reconstructed with the aid of plastic surgery. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter, 1795, after J. Wales.
  • A South African medicine man or shaman. Colour process print after a photograph by G.W. Wilson.
  • Three scenes: a woman undergoing a trial for adultery, a Jewish burial and circumcision ceremony. Etching after a woodcut, 1682.
  • Three angry Indians throwing stones and sticks at a medicine man. Coloured engraving.
  • Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac feigning illness in front of Béline, his wife and Dr. Purgon, his physician, in a scene from Molière's play. Etching by G. Schouten after J.B. Molière.
  • A Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • A Mrua medicine man or shaman with his assistants, Central Africa. Coloured wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.