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  • Skulls and bones of friars, looking towards the altar of a chapel. Photograph.
  • Taku, China: the North Fort: Chinese corpses on the day of the fort's capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.
  • A human skull reused as a banjo. Photograph, 19--.
  • Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome: skulls and skeletons of the friars arranged in arches and columns around the walls of the Convento dei Cappuccini. Photograph.
  • An elderly man after his death. Photograph, 1840/1855.
  • Skulls and skeletons of friars arranged columns around the walls of a chapel. Photograph.
  • Philippines: the dead body of a wealthy man displayed seated on a high chair after having been smoked for 24 days. Photograph, 19--.
  • Taku, China: the North Fort: Chinese corpses following the capture of the fort by the English and French armies on August 21st 1860, during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.
  • Shrunken heads displayed on vases and as hanging baskets. Photograph, ca. 1890 (?).
  • Tibet: a dead body being broken up with a hammer and knife for throwing to the birds. Photograph, 19--.
  • Tibet: a dead body being eaten by dogs. Photograph, 19--.
  • Taku, China: the North Fort bearing raised British and French flags; Chinese corpses in the foreground; on the day of the fort's capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.
  • An elderly man after his death. Photograph, 1840/1855.
  • An elderly man after his death. Photograph, 1840/1855.
  • Philippines: the dead and smoked bodies of three people seated on the ground. Photograph, 19--.
  • Skeletons of priests (?), preserved and standing in rows wearing robes and berettas, depicted in a painting. Photograph.
  • A dead man, wearing robes, lying on his deathbed. Photograph.
  • The skeleton of a friar in the role of Death as the reaper, surrounded by skulls, ribs and vertebrae, in a chapel. Photograph.
  • Philippines: the body of a wealthy dead man displayed seated on a high chair after having been smoked for 15 days. Photograph, 19--.
  • Philippines: skulls and a skeleton of the dead lying on the ground. Photograph, 19--.
  • Friern Hospital, London: a dead man on a bed, viewed from the side. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Palermo, Convento dei Cappuccini: skeletons of the friars, preserved and standing in rows wearing robes and berettas. Photograph by G. Incorpora.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: a human cadaver abandoned in the water being examined by a dog. Photograph.