Nose Collection (page 6)

Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture (Desmana moschata)

Proboscis / Long-nosed MONKEY (Nasilis larvatus)

Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga angustirostris)

Proboscis / Long-nosed MONKEY - side view of face (Nasilis larvatus)

Marwari Caste girls, India
Marwari (or Marwadi) Caste girls, originating from Rajasthan, India. Date: circa 1890s

Dum-dum bullets used during WW1
Dum-dum bullets used during the First World War. As Dr Haydn Brown explains, the bullet breaks up or mushrooms on entering the human target, and causes maximum damage as a result. Date: October 1914

Antankarana woman from Mahajanga, Madagascar
An Antankarana woman from Mahajanga (Majunga) a city and a district on the northwest coast of Madagascar. Note the distinctive balled hairstyle, nose jewellery and beaded necklaces

Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Doctor to be eaten
Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Western Doctor, investigating the Culinary Habits of the Cannibal Islands is himself about to become the entrea.. Date: circa 1910s

Ateles paniscus, black spider monkey
Portrait of a red faced black spider monkey, native to the Amazon forest of Brazil. Photographed by Frank Greenaway

India - A Brahmin lady with distinctive nose piercings. Brahmin is the class of educators, law makers, scholars and preachers of Dharma in Hinduism

The Cuckold Hat
A new type of hat - suitable for use by married men... the cuckold hat! Date: circa 1910s

Egyptian Nubian Woman
A Nubian woman of Egypt

Acrobat balancing pudding on nose on a Christmas card
Acrobat balancing a pudding on his nose on a Christmas and New Year card -- Balance of Currant Accounts. Date: circa 1890s

Comic postcard, drunkard in cemetery Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man with hangover mistakes his hairbrush for a mirror Date: 20th century

Man with a turkey on a comic Christmas and New Year card
Man having his nose bitten by a turkey on a comic Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Mr Punch with an open book on a cutout Christmas card, showing a picture of his dog, Toby. circa 1890s

Acrobat balancing pudding on nose on a Christmas card
Acrobat balancing a pudding on his nose on a Christmas and New Year card -- Balance of Currant Accounts. Date: circa 1890s

Dante by Laurence Irving (11 April 1897 23 October 1988) from the French of Victorien Sardou and E. Moreau. The previously shown poster has been adapted here for the tour

Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) Toucouleurs (Fula) Woman
A Fula (Toucouleurs) Woman from Bukina Faso (Upper Volta), a landlocked country in West Africa. Date: circa 1920s

Girl and boy with snowman on a Christmas postcard
Girl and boy with a snowman on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

GREEK ART. REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA. Bust of Aphrodite, goddess of love. Located in Phoenician. First centuries of the Roman period. Ruins of Butrint Museum

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). The Man With the Broken Nose (Mas
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). French sculptor. The Man With the Broken Nose (Mask). Bronze. Before (1918).1862-63. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Vespasian (9-79). Roman Emperor. Bust. Marble. 1st century
Vespasian (9-79). Roman Emperor. Founder of the Flavian dynasty. Head from an statue. 70-80 AD. From Carthage, Tunisia. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Pre-Columbian Art. Tumaco or La Tolita Culture. (600 B. C. an
Pre-Columbian Art. Tumaco or La Tolita Culture. (600 b.C. and 200 A.C.). Standing figure. (1st. b.C.-1st. d.C.). Gold. Colombia or Ecuador. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

East Indian wife of plantation worker, Trinidad, West Indies
East Indian wife of a sugar plantation worker, Trinidad, West Indies, with nose jewellery. Date: circa 1910s

Kay Snap - Mr Cream the Milkman. 1930s

St Dunstan & the Devil
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and Saint Artists sometimes depicted him holding the devil by the nose with a pair of tongs, as here Date: 924 - 988

Jp Morgan / Sem 1906 Profi
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN American banker and financier, not looking too happy for all his wealth! Date: 1837 - 1913

The Last Pinch - old man taking snuff. circa late 19th century

Cartoon, The Bulgarian Cad, WW1
Cartoon, The Bulgarian Cad (with a pun on his large nose), showing King Ferdinand of Bulgaria admiring himself in a hand mirror. Date: 1915

Cartoon, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Judas, WW1
Cartoon, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Judas, both seen as betrayers. Judas hanged himself in remorse after betraying Christ, and he now offers Ferdinand a rope for him to do the same. Date: 1915

Grotesque head, illustration by William Heath Robinson (The Works of Mr Francis Rabelais, 1921). Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Belone belone, or Garfish, also known as Sea Needle, Longnose and Hornbeak. Date: 1865

Raja rhina, or Longnose Skate. Date: 1862

Laughing old man
A laughing old man with a wart on his nose, a fuzzy beard and blacked-out teeth. Perhaps not a real tramp, but an actor wearing makeup? Date: circa 1960s

Hawker Hurricane 1A nose close up, (on the ground), with Polish pilots

Heinkel He 177 -a few were fitted with a 40mm nose cannon for use around Stalingrad

German Boar held at Verdun - Cartoon
The German Boar held at Verdun. Date: 1916

Bottle with female form and gold nose ring. Childbirth scene. Viru Culture of the Chicama and Viru, Peru, 3rd c. A.D. Pre-Columbian art. Ceramics. PERU. Lima. Peruvian Gold Museum

Woman Munition Worker WW1. Woman in munition factory, powders her nose in view of male supervisor, Captioned, Don t go putting the powder where it is not wanted. Date: circa 1916

Off the Coast of Scotland by William Heath Robinson
The German Periscoper: Ach, Himmel! Dot most be der peautiful Ben Nevis of vich ve ave eard so mooch. A German submarine mistakes the prominent nose of a bather for the tip of Ben Nevis while sailing

Pinocchio -- kicking Geppetto on the nose
Pinocchio -- When Geppetto had finished the feet he received a kick on the point of his nose. Date: 1911

French helmet with visor, WW1
A French helmet with visor, used during the First World War. Seen here on display, probably in a museum. Date: 1914-1918

Lady from Nepal in traditional costume with a vast array of bangles, necklaces, rings and other adornments. Date: circa 1910s

Irascible old man leaning forward to rise from his chair
A study of an irascible old man leaning forward to rise from his chair. He may have had a little too much to drink. Date: 1894

An old Cockney Woman - East London Date: circa 1890s

The Transit of Venus - Comic Postcard
A comic postcard depiting a rotund woman (a very classical frame!) being transported home from the pub by two stretcher-bearing Bobbies

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