Ethnic Collection (page 45)

Native Dancers, Mexico - wearing elaborate costumes which are a real mish-mash of Roman Catholic and traditional styles. Date: circa 1920s

Tibetan Picnic Party Date: circa 1920s

Three boys on a desert island captured by an indigenous man, who nails their packing case clothing to a long pole and carries them away midst weeping sore and wailing. Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on a desert island meet an indigenous man Date: 1898

Yi or Lolo Woman from the border region of China and Vietnam
A Yi or Lolo Woman from the border region of China and Vietnam. Date: circa 1910s

South Africa - Two women, a witchdoctor and a child
Two women negotiating with a witchdoctor concerning the blessing of a new house in the village - South Africa. Date: circa 1920s

Vietnamese Officials at Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)
Indigenous Vietnamese Officials at Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) Date: circa 1910s

South Africa - Sotho Boys play cards for arm bangles. The Sotho people (Basotho or Basuto) are a Bantu ethnic group whose ancestors have lived in southern Africa since around the fifth century

Japanese children - some carrying their younger siblings Date: circa 1910s

Drying Fish - Kamchatka Peninsula - Far Eastern Russia
The Method the people of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Far Eastern Russia dry fish (on racks) and melt down the grease and oils for other uses. Date: circa 1800

Underground home - Kamchatka - Far Eastern Russia - used in the harsh winter. Date: circa 1800

Clothing of the Men of Kamchatka - Far Eastern Russia
Clothing of the Men of the Kamchatka Peninsula - Far Eastern Russia. The plate shows winter clothing, summer clothing and ceremonial costume. Date: circa 1800

Clothing of the Women of Kamchatka - Far Eastern Russia. The plate shows ordinary day wear and ceremonial costume. Date: circa 1800

Mapuche Girl grinding toasted wheat - Southern Chile
Mapuche Girl grinding toasted wheat on a quern stone - Southern Chile. Date: circa 1910s

Participants in female circumcision ceremony, Africa
Participants in a female circumcision ceremony line up in Ubangi-Shari (Oubangi Chari), a French colony in central Africa, now part of the Central African Republic

Woman from the Lunda Region, Angola (at this stage still a Portuguese Colony). Date: circa 1950s

Natives of the Island of Reunion - Indian Ocean. Date: 1880s

Ostrich Feather Seller at Aden, Yemen. Date: 1892

Madagascar - A Group of Merina women. The Merina are an ethnic group concentrated in the Highlands. Date: circa 1910s

Sudan - Travelling by Ox in Kurdufan Province Date: circa 1910

Myanmar - A Shan Archer
Myanmar (Burma) - A Shan Archer. The Shan are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia. Date: circa 1910s

Buland Khan of Dagshai - Indian Fencer
Vintage British Indian postcard showing Buland Khan of Dagshai (Northern India) - The Fence and Swords Man. Dagshai is a cantonment town in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, India

Turkman Mullah at Hazar, Turkemistan
A Turkman Mullah at Hazar, Turkemistan on the Caspian Sea. The Balkan Province of Celeken (Cheleken). Date: circa 1906

Man from Samegrelo - Georgia
Man from Samegrelo (Samargalo, Megrelia or Mingrelia) - a historic province in the western part of Georgia, formerly also known as Odishi. The Megrelians are an ethnic subgroup of the Georgians

Elderly Amerindian Woman - Peru Date: circa 1910s

Toba Indian, Meleta Gran Chato, Argentina
The Toba are an ethnic group in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. The Gran Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland natural region of the Rde la Plata basin

Peru - Forest Indians - Indigenous people of Peru. Date: circa 1909

Amerindian Man - Cyclopean Wall - Cuzco, Peru
Amerindian Man - standing in front of a Cyclopean stone Wall - testament to the skill of Incan masons - Cuzco, Peru. Date: circa 1910s

The Selengyin Buryats
The Buryats or Buriyads - the largest ethnic minority group in Siberia, mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic, a federal subject of Russia

Toba Family - Gran Chaco, Argentina. The Toba are an ethnic group in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. They are part of a larger group of indigenous inhabitants of the Gran Chaco region

A group of indigenous Indians - Cuzco, Peru Date: circa 1906

Indigenous Peruvian Indians at Lake Titicaca, Peru Date: circa 1910s

Heligoland - Naval launches arriving
Heligoland - a small German archipelago in the North Sea. Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands (population 1)

A Bhutia Dancing Party - Tibet
A Bhutia Dancing Party. The Bhutia are ethnic Tibetans who speak a Tibetan dialect. Their ancestors migrated from Tibet to Sikkim, Darjeeling

A Bhutia Coolia. The Bhutia are ethnic Tibetans who speak a Tibetan dialect. Their ancestors migrated from Tibet to Sikkim, Darjeeling

Schloss Postenden, Latvia
Schloss Postenden - a mansion built by ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea - at Courland, Latvia. Date: circa 1905

Indian totem pole carver at work. Date: 1911

George Robinson on his conciliation mission, Tasmania

Betsileo Costume - Madagascar. A wonderful photograph of a woman wrapped in a fine piece of patterned cloth. The Betsileo are a highland ethnic group of Madagascar

Betsimisaraka Girl from Madagascar
A very striking Betsimisaraka Girl from Madagascar wearing a very attractive printed wrap Date: 1910

Collection of Northwestern Indian Baskets Date: 1910

A Guajiro Market - Venezuela
A Wayuu (also Wayu, Wayuu, Guajiro, Wahiro) Market in Venzuela. The Guajiro are an Amerindian ethnic group of the La Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela. Date: circa 1930s

The Corra Linn of Northern Tasmania -- a landscape of water, rocks and trees. 1870

Khoja from Uzbekistan
A Khojeh of Uzbek Tartary. The Khojas are an ethnic group of Shia Muslims.This plate, according to Elphinstone, depicts Mahommed Hussun, a native of Wurdaunzye near Bokhaura

Georgia - Adjara
Adjara, officially The Autonomous Republic of Adjara - an autonomous republic of Georgia. Adjara is also spelt Ajara or Adzhara, and is also known as Ajaria / Adjaria / Adzharia, or as Achara

Reconstructed Maori village, Rotorua, North Island, New Zeal
Part of the defence stockade of Tamaki, a reconstructed Maori village south of Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand. The village has won awards, and visitors can experience some of the traditions

Indigenous Toba Indians - Argentina
The Toba are an ethnic group in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. They are part of a larger group of indigenous inhabitants of the Gran Chaco region, called the Guaycurues

Rusyn People - Hungary
Rusyns - an Eastern Slavic ethnic group who speak an Eastern Slavic language (or dialect) known as Rusyn. This appears to be a team working on a railway in the Carpathian Mountain region of Hungary

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