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  • Four goldsmiths making goblets, necklaces etc. from gold and silver. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
  • Two women with elaborate hairstyles and necklaces (designated as Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon) and two others wearing hats and fancy dress (Punch and his wife Joan). Coloured wood engraving.
  • Female Flying Pigeon, a native American woman with plaits, wearing a pink dress with flower decor and shawl, necklaces and holding a feather fan. Colour lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1837.
  • Amuletic necklace worn to cure bronchitis, Woolwich, London.
  • Amuletic necklace worn to cure bronchitis, Woolwich, London.
  • Amuletic necklace worn to cure bronchitis, Woolwich, London.
  • Amuletic necklace, Bear claws and red trade beads.
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Pearl Necklace' pox
  • Advertisement for 'the anodyne necklace' recomended by Dr. Chamberlen.