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  • Two women posing naked in a photographic studio, standing embracing each other in front of some studio props.
  • Tshusick, an Ojibwa woman, holding a flower. Coloured lithograph by A. Hoffy after C.B. King, 1837.
  • A young Masai woman, full length, wearing much jewellery. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • An Indian man with long hair, carrying a staff, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Hindu barber shaving a man's head. Gouache drawing.
  • Exposition du Sahara / Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro.
  • Assam: a Chang Naga man with a head-hunter's tattoo. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.
  • Panama: a jaguar hunter; and naked children. Photographs, 1900/1910.
  • A Ntumbasee medicine man or shaman in full costume. Halftone.
  • An Indian man wearing a Parsi string and make-up, squatting on a rug with his hand in a rosary bag, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A young Indian man wearing many beads and makeup in a temple precinct. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • [Small, undated handbill (Febuary 1853?) printed in black on yellow paper advertising "Kaffir war, the wonder of the ace, the last of the race" at Smith's, 63 Red Lion Street, Holborn, London].
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • A young Hindu girl, perhaps a princess, in a studio setting.
  • South Africa: a group of African women and children. Albumen print.
  • J-Aw-Beance (?), an Ojibwa chief, wearing a medallion. Coloured lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C.B. King, 1836.
  • The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia : an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea / by Bronislaw Malinowski ; complete in one volume ; with a preface by Havelock Ellis.
  • Two African men smoking pipes. Albumen print.
  • A young Aboriginal couple in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Kalyo Kengyu, northern India: human heads hung up as trophies in a Naga village. Photograph.
  • The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia : an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea / by Bronislaw Malinowski ; complete in one volume ; with a preface by Havelock Ellis.
  • A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.
  • A young woman wearing a plain robe and a tasselled hat, standing in front of a painted screen.
  • The Malay archipelago : the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
  • A Zambesi man standing in front of a pair of trees.
  • Three native North American medicine men dressed in elaborate ritual masks and costumes. Wood engraving.
  • John Williams, a member of the Tonkawa tribe. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
  • A North African woman with scarification on her cheeks. Photograph attributed to G. Lekegian, ca. 1900.
  • Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du roi en 1761. Contenant les mœurs, les usages des Russes, et l'etat actuel de cette puissance; la description géographique & le nivellement de la route de Paris à Tobolsk ... / par m. l'abbé Chappe d'Auteroche.
  • Two Hindu musicians and a highly decorated cow with the symbol of Hanuman painted on its forehead. Gouache drawing.