181 results filtered with: Manners and customs
- Pictures
- Online
An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 21353i- Books
- Online
The memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans : recollections of the second French Empire / edited by Edward A. Crane.
Evans, Thomas W. (Thomas Wiltberger), 1823-1897.Date: 1906- Pictures
- Online
A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
Reference: 21329i- Books
Die Sitten der Völker : Liebe, Ehe, Heirat, Geburt, Religion, Aberglaube, Lebensgewohnheiten, Kultureigentümlichkeiten, Tod und Bestattung bei allen Völkern der Erde / bearb. auf Grund der Beiträge hervorragender Fachgelehrter wie T.J. Albridge [and others] von Georg Buschan.
Date: [1914-1922]- Pictures
Saint Mary Magdalene holds an ointment jar; in the background she washes Christ's feet with the ointment and dries them with her hair. Engraving by J. Saenredam after H. Goltzius.
Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617.Date: [between 1600 and 1699?]Reference: 556514i- Pictures
A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
Lafrensen, Niklas, 1737-1807.Date: [1786]Reference: 15864i- Pictures
A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
Reference: 16529i- Pictures
Saint Mary Magdalene washes Christ's feet at supper. Gouache painting.
Reference: 22633i- Pictures
A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
Baudouin, Pierre-Antoine, 1723-1769.Reference: 15865i- Books
The peoples of the world : being a popular description of the characteristics, condition, and customs of the human family / by Robert Brown.
Brown, Robert, 1842-1895.Date: 1882- Pictures
- Online
Sarawak: a Kayan woman dancing with the head of an enemy. Photograph.
Reference: 31438i- Pictures
- Online
A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
Alldridge, T. J.Reference: 21403i- Pictures
- Online
An African medicine man operating on a man's hand. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 21375i- Books
Family skeletons : exploring the lives of our disreputable ancestors / Ruth Paley and Simon Fowler.
Paley, Ruth.Date: 2005- Books
Antiqvitatvm convivialivm libri III. in qvibvs Hebraeorvm, Graecorvm, Romanorvm aliarvmqve nationvm antiqva conviviorvm genera, necnon mores, consuetudines, ritus ceremoniaeque conuiuiales, atque etiam aliae explicantur ... / Avctore Io. Gvilielmo Stvckio Tigvrino.
Stucki, Johann Wilhelm, -1607.Date: 1582- Books
- Online
Observations on the manners and customs of the Egyptians, the overflowing of the Nile and its effects, with remarks on the plague, and other subjects : written during a residence of twelve years in Cairo and its vicinity / by John Antes ; to which are added, Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt, 1798 ; interesting memoirs of Admirals Nelson and Keith, Sir Sidney Smith, ... &c. &c. ; with an enlarged account of the Battle of the Nile, ...
Antes, John.Date: 1800- Pictures
- Online
An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Halftone.
Reference: 21338i- Books
Cuerpo y espíritu. Imágenes de vida / fotografías, Christa Cowrie, Marco Antonio Cruz [y] Frida Hartz ; textos, Teresa del Conde.
Cowrie, Christa.Date: 2003- Books
Mœurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde, d'après des documents and authentiques et les voyages des plus récents / [by N. Dally]; publié par Auguste Wahlen.
Wahlen, Aug. (Auguste), 1785-1849.Date: 1843-1844- Pictures
- Online
A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
Buchta, Richard.Reference: 21388i- Pictures
- Online
A wealthy hypochondriac having two physicians take his pulse at the same time. Line engraving by H. Bourne after A. Solomon.
Solomon, Abraham, 1823-1862.Reference: 21990i- Pictures
- Online
A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
Buchta, Richard.Reference: 21321i- Pictures
Jesus meets the woman from Samaria at the well. Engraving.
Reference: 22516i- Books
- Online
The children of Madagascar / by Herbert F. Standing.
Standing, Herbert, 1846-1923.Date: 1887- Journals
- Online
The Folk-lore record.
Date: [1878]-1882