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A man of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) encountered by Captain Cook during his third voyage, 1776-1780. Engraving by J. Caldwall, 1784 after J. Webber, 1777.

A man from Mysore being handed some betel leaves by his wife. Gouache drawing.

Indian washerman and wife. Gouache drawing.

A Malabar barber cutting a customer's hair. Gouache drawing.

Australia: an aboriginal woman with a bone through her nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.

Hindu barber shaving a man's head. Gouache drawing.

Brahman priest and wife. Gouache drawing.

A Hindu priest offering a young woman some holy beads. Gouache drawing.

An Indian carpenter and wife holding tools. Gouache drawing.

Hindu barber and wife. Gouache drawing.

A young man of the Konyak Naga tribe, India, holding a human head. Photograph.

A woman covers her nudity; but in vain, because her facial features, marked with numbered dots, allow us to interpret the hidden contours and shapes of her body (according a method attributed to Lavater). Coloured lithograph.

Sierra Leone: a tattooed man of the Kissi people collecting money. Photograph, 19--.

A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.

Australia: an aboriginal man (Ned Woolnah?) with a bone through his nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.

A begging Brahman raising his begging bowl to accept a gift from a woman. Gouache drawing.

A woman giving her husband some betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

Indian doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Gouache drawing.

Indian weavers. Gouache drawing.

Pair of wrestlers fighting. Gouache drawing.

Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

Indian potter and wife. Gouache drawing.

Indian singers and musicians. Gouache drawing.

A Moodaly and wife. Gouache drawing.

A man carrying Holy water with his wife. Gouache drawing.

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