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  • Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa. Coloured wood engraving by H. Hall after H.M. Stanley, ca.1872.
  • An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.
  • Krakatoa: plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) and coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in a forest clearing, with native man and his hut. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
  • A log cabin, which housed the first printing press at the head of Lake Superior. Process print after a lithograph of 1855.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A Binsa sorcerer or shaman, Congo. Halftone.
  • Afia-Too-Ca, a burying place in Tongatapu, Tonga, with three people, several huts and surrounding palm trees. Coloured line engraving by W. Byrne, c. 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • An African medicine man operating on a man's hand. Coloured engraving.
  • A Japanese man and child by a village fence. Gouache painting.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • Men with spears walking past tree with figures sitting in the shade. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Three trees by the road to a farm, with wooden hut and haystack. Pencil drawing.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.
  • An African shaman or medicine man dressed in ritual mask and costume. Coloured photograph.
  • Three angry Indians throwing stones and sticks at a medicine man. Coloured engraving.
  • Women gathering leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum coca) in Bolivia. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • Kapok or silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) growing by a village in Surinam. Coloured lithograph by P. Lauters, c. 1839, after P. J. Benoit.
  • Boer War: a temporary hospital hut at Netley with four nurses at the door. Halftone, c. 1900.