Indigenous Collection (page 52)

Native Policemen, Natal, South Africa and their prisoner Date: circa 1901

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

The people living at the foot of Mount Loa Bo, Vietnam Date: circa 1952

Argentina - Indigenous Tribesmen roll a bottle tree trunk
Argentina - Indigenous Indian Tribesmen on the Pilcomayo River roll a bottle tree trunk. Date: circa 1930s

Taiwan (Formosa) - Essential house repairs taking place
Siraya People, Taiwan (Formosa) - Essential house repairs taking place (during the period of the Japanese occupation of Formosa following the First Sino-Japanese War). Date: circa 1910s

Tibetan Picnic Party Date: circa 1920s

Canada - Halifax - Garrison Chapel, Public Gardens, Indians
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - A Sunday Church Parade of troops in front of the Garrison Chapel, Public Gardens, Indians in the Market Square and the City and Harbour viewed from the Park Date: 1898

Prairie wigwam - home to an indigenous Mother and Uncle
Prairie wigwam - home to the indigenous mans Mother and Uncle, both of whom peep out of suitable holes in the decorated canvas covering. It looks as if the Uncle has already hit the bottle

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

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

Sakai Women, Kampong Ulu Jelebu, Malaysia Date: circa 1910s

Maori Woman and child - Tauwhitu House, Ohinemutu, NZ
Maori Woman carrying her child on her back - pictured in front of the Tauwhitu House, Ohinemutu, New Zealand. The house was owned by Te Kahuranga, also known as Wiremu Matene. Date: 1909

Southern India - Toda People - Cathedral at Ooty
Toda People - Cathedral at Udhagamandalam (better known as Ooty and sometimes Ootacamund or abbreviated as Udhagai), the district capital of the Nilgiris district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

New Zealand - The Prow of a Maori War Canoe and three Maoris (in western dress) (see: 10634557 for the section in original situ). Date: circa 1910s

South Africa - A Happy Couple Date: circa 1902

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

South Africa - An ancient San Bushman - 100 Years Old. Date: circa 1904

South Africa Family outside their simple homestead
South Africa Family (Mother, Father and six children) outside their simple homestead. Date: circa 1904

South Africa - A M hlope Girl outside her house Date: circa 1906

South Africa - Women carrying mealie-meal - a relatively coarse flour made from maize (called mielies or mealies). A staple food in South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi

South African couple - postcard entitled Sweethearts Date: 1906

Tunisian Spahi Officer with his pet Gazelle - Tunisia. Spahis were light cavalry regiments of the French army recruited primarily from the indigenous populations of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco

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

Red Indian Chief - Circling Bear (1800-1854), sporting a fantastic feather headdress and long pipe. Chief Conquering Bear was a Brule Lakota leader who signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1851

Congo, Africa - Sacks of Coffee prepared for export. Date: 1911

Herero Warriors - Namibia (at that point German South West Africa). The Herero are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa

Inuit - Family by their Summer Residence Date: circa 1910s

Inuit - Mother and Children on the Polar Ice by their tent, with block ice entrance. Date: circa 1910s

A native of Northern Russia with longbow and arrows wearing decorated skin clothing Date: circa 1901

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

Argentina - Objects and weapons of the Indigenous Indians Date: circa 1910s

Inuit woman preparing fish and water rats - Alaska, USA. Date: circa 1928

A Buryat (or Buriyad) man - Siberia, Russia
A Buryat (or Buriyad) man - the largest indigenous group in Siberia, mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic, a federal subject of Russia

Madagascar - Queens Palace - Ancient Royal Residence Date: circa 1910s

Kia Ora - New Zealand tourist postcard
Kia Ora is a small dairy farming locality in North Otago, based around Kia Ora Hall. The phrase is also a common greeting in the Maori language and literally means " May you live"

Pipe Player of the Solomon Islands, a collection of nearly one thousand islands in Oceania (that form a sovereign country) - performing music for a traditional dance. Date: circa 1930s

Rwanda, Africa - Indigenous Army Date: circa 1909

New Mexico, USA - A Zuni Pueblo
Zuni Pueblo - New Mexico. Pueblos are modern and ancient communities of Native Americans in the Southwestern United States of America

Vietnam - Guard of the Debernardi Concession
" An old acquaintance among the Cochin hunters - Guard of the Debernardi Concession". Cochin here refers to Cochinchina

Preparing Manioc at Banghi in the Congo. Fufu, or cassava bread, is made in Africa by first pounding cassava (Manioc) in a mortar to make flour (as shown here)

Indian River and Totem Poles - Sitka, Alaska, USA
Indian River and Totem Poles of the Tlingit people - Sitka, Alaska, USA Date: circa 1902

Moki Snake Dance, Arizona, USA Date: 1902

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