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  • Split end of a human hair
  • The young foppish politician Charles James Fox having his hair dressed; represented by a fox with pages from the Magna Charta as curl-papers. Engraving, 1771.
  • Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female
  • A hair-dresser accidentally severing a woman's locks with his curling tongs. Coloured lithograph.
  • A barber in Rouen dressing a man's hair. Coloured engraving by G.R. Lewis after himself.
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • A barber dressing a man's hair. Engraving by J. Tomlinson, 1808.
  • Hair brain sculptures
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • A heavily jewelled Mahalakshmi with two parrots. Coloured transfer lithograph by A.R. Raghunath, 1897.
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Human hair with follicle attached (Chinese origin), SEM
  • Human hair (Asian origin)
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Delilah cuts the sleeping Samson's hair, smiling at the Philistine soldiers waiting in the shadows. Engraving.
  • A man receiving a shave and a hair cut at the barbers representing the dangers of using unsterilised sharp instruments and contracting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement in Maldivian by the Department of Public Health, Maldives. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Two barbers: Peter Paul Magnus (above) and Nardus of Naples (below). Line engraving.
  • A barber dressing a man's hair. Engraving by J. Tomlinson, 1808.
  • Knot in human blonde hair
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • A Nayar lady with distinctive hairstyle. Chromolithograph.
  • AIDS : guidelines for hairdressers and barbers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • The shorn Samson is rebuffed by Delilah. Engraving by C. Simonneau after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • King George IV with Lady Conyngham inspecting wigs on wig-stands presented by a Frenchman; representing a disagreement in the cabinet with the 'Canning-ites' over the Corn bill. Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1828.
  • A London hair-dresser's shop: a barber shaves a man; a young woman who is having her hair cut recognizes another customer; and a man who rents the upper part reads the Sunday newspaper. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Strand of human hair from a white Caucasian, AFM
  • Hair brain sculptures
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM