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SWINGING INDIANSA Diversion of swinging practised by the principal people in India Date: 18th century
DJIGHITOFFKA COSSACKS They ride standing upright on horseback. They wear long red coats and tall fur hats and are armed with whips, knives and swords. Date: circa 1850
FRANCE / WOMAN OF CAUXA young woman of Caux, in Normandie, wearing her traditional costume Date: early 19th century
RACIAL / PEACE PIPES C1730A club, and two PEACE PIPES (or Calumets) used by Native Americans : the lower one is from Virginia Date: circa 1730
PLAIN PARISIENNESLes Trois Graces Parisiennes three Frenchwomen, despite their years, persist in dressing as fashionably as they can Date: circa 1805
RACIAL TYPES / NEW ZEALANDA group of indigenous New Zealanders cooking and consuming their enemies Date: circa 1840
Nubian women making pottery
RUSSIA / TARTARTartar Horsewoman
SINGING ROUND CAMP FIREThe round-up camp - playing the guitar and accordion round the camp fire Date: 1906
RACIAL CONCEPT / SKULLSBritish and German skulls compared - Long-Head versus Short-Head Date: 1915
SERBIAN SHEPHERDSSerbian shepherds with their flocks Date: 1912
GIPSY MUSICIANS 19CTwo Spanish gipsy girls play guitar and tambourine Date: 19th century
Turkish coffee house 1853Turkish men seated on cushioned benches, along three sides, smoking the tchibouk or narghile. Date: 1853
Native American costume: Blackfoot Medicine Man by CatlinNative American medicine man from the Blackfoot tribe. Date: 1830
RACIAL TYPES / CIRCASSIANA Circassian soldier of the Czars Escort uses his horse as cover during a firefight. Date: circa 1890
Two Circassian soldiers Date: 1855
Country Scene with Traditional North Wales ClothesCostumes of North Wales Date: 1825
A Highland Shepherd and his SheepdogA highland shepherd and his sheepdog. Date: 1848
Red and Green Stewart TartanThe Stewart Tartan Prince Charles Edward (Red and green) Date: circa 1902
Blue and Green Graham TartanThe Graham Tartan (Blue and green) Date: circa 1902
Strolling beggars in China knocking their heads together and on a stone in order to extort alms. Date: 1737
Strolling beggars in China with burning coalsStrolling beggars in China laying burning coals on their heads and using other austerities in order to extort alms. Date: 1752
Ancient Scottish warrior in kilt with winged helmet, weapons and shield
Red, Blue, Green and Black MacDonald TartanThe Macdonald Tartan (Red, blue, green and black) Date: circa 1902
Two little black children on the beach - fish in a jam jarThe Catch of the Season. Two little black children on the beach holding a fish in a jam jar. Date: circa 1905
Shilluk warriors, South SudanTwo Shilluk (Chollo) warriors, near the River Nile, South Sudan. Shilluks are typically tall and slim. Date: 1936
Mother and son of Kismayo, Somalia, East Africa. 1922
Three people of Kismayo, Somalia, East Africa. circa 1922
Bedouin tent with familySeated Bedouin family at their desert tent. circa 1895
Two Native African Matabele women grinding maize outside a hut. Date: circa 1930
African women and girl in native dressTwo African women and a girl in native dress, wearing metal and bone jewellery, and with their skin heavily oiled. Date: circa 1920
African woman in native dress, wearing metal and bone jewellery, and with her skin heavily oiled. Date: circa 1920
Bern, Switzerland - women in traditional Swiss costumeBern, Switzerland - two women in the Bernese Oberland (Bernese Highlands), collecting water from a public fountain while wearing traditional Swiss style costume. circa 1910s
Ornamental scars on face and sharpened and filed teethPhotograph of a couple from upper Congo, Central Africa - bearing facial scarification and sharpened upper teeth and filed bottom teeth
South Algeria woman carrying her baby on her backMother from Bou Saada, South Algeria, carrying her baby on her back with a strap around
Native American Indians wearing body paintNative American Indians dancing a tribal dance for an important occasion, wearing body paint, feathers on thier heads and around their waist
German Bar MaidsTwo buxom German women in traditional costume, bearing tankards of fine German beer! Date: 1930s
Ruth Williams KhamaRUTH WILLIAMS KHAMA English woman, controversially married (1948) Seretse Khama, heir to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana. Here with baby Jacqueline. Date: 1923 - 2002
Racial / E Africa / KenyaA Masai woman of Kenya (then the British East African Protectorate) - weighed down with massive ornaments on her neck, arms, ears and head Date: 1908
Princess Victor Duleep Singh (Lady Anne Coventry)Lady Anne Coventry, whose marriage to the bankrupt royal Sikh Prince Victor Duleep Singh in 1898 was controversial - it was the first time an English noblewoman had married an Indian prince
Gate of St Stephen, Bab Sitti Maryam, JerusalemGate of St Stephen, also known as Gate of the Lions and Bab Sitti Maryam, Jerusalem. Date: 1920s
Lubra, an Australian aborigine woman, 1850Lubra, an Australian aborigine woman of Port Philip, pictured in 1850 with her hunting spear. She wears sheepskin here, with some tattooing or scarification visible on her chest. Date: 1850
Te Maro - Te Amotutu - Ko Tariu - MaorisTe Maro, a boy of Waikato (top left), Te Amotutu, a young chief of the Nga-Ti-Pou tribe (top right), and Ko Tariu, a chief of Taupo, with his wife (below) - Maoris
Maori Weapons and Implements of War, with Warriors preparing for a fight. Plate from The New Zealanders illustrated by George French Angas (1822-1886). Date: 1847
Mohi, Maori Chief, New Zealand. Date: circa 1890s
Samoan woman, South Pacific. Date: circa 1890s
Samurai of the Satsuma Clan, Japan, looking at a map. Date: circa 1890s
Native group, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)Native group outside a hut in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s