Skins Collection (page 3)

Advert for Lilley & Skinner tennis shoes 1928
Seletion of tennis shoes for women. 1928

Bewick - Musk Ox
(ovibos muschatus) The North American Musk Bull or Musk Ox provided food and skins to Native Americans. Date: 1790

Djibouti, East Africa - Sellers of Animal Hides
Djibouti, East Africa (then French Somaliland) - Sellers of Animal Hides. Date: circa 1910s

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

St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada - Sealer unloading catch
Wharf at St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada - Sealer unloading catch. Date: 1902

Water Carriers - Constantinople, Turkey Date: circa 1900

Two Argentinian Gauchos resting in the field of an Estancia, surrounded by hides, hung out to dry on an old covered wagon

Inuit Chief and his wife - Alaska (Island of Detroit, Bering) Date: circa 1910s

Inuit children at a Catholic Mission - Newfoundland
Inuit children at a Catholic Eskimo Mission - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1910s

British Columbia Indian Shaman in full fur attire, standing with totemic wooden carved objects outside his canvas abode. Date: circa 1910s

Catholic Inuit family - Newfoundland
An Inuit (Eskimo) family who converted to Catholicism - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1910s

Peshawar Fur Market - with bales loaded on carts all ready for foreign export. Date: 1910s

Indigenous Alaskan Inuit children
Pair of Indigenous Alaskan Inuit children Date: circa 1910

A couple of Sami people. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Georgia - Tbilisi - Man selling delivering water in ox skins
Extraorinary sight of a man selling/delivering water in whole ox skins (!) near Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis

Hudsons Bay Inuit Mother and Daughter

Inuit Camp at Hudson Bay in summertime. A Canoe is being built by the side of a hide-covered tent

Abyssinian Village - Jubilee Exhibition, Prague
Jubilee Exhibition, Prague, Czech Republic - An Abyssian Village. This was a major industrial exhibition, celebrating industry in the region, but grew far larger

Uganda - Rukidi III
Uganda - Tribal King Rukidi III (ruled 1929 - 1965) - seated in his opulent throne, surrounded by leopard and cheetah skins and wearing a hat with an Osprey feather

Turkish Butcher skinning a sheep
A Turkish butcher skinning a sheep in Constantinople

Macedonian Butcher at work
A Macedonian butcher cuts up a sheep

Fur Traders Wife - Southern Russia
A Fur traders wife in fine attire standing alongside the results of her husbands work

Zebra skin
Skin of zebra of modern Naturalists as preserved by Captain Harris, probably William Cornwallis Harris of the East India Company, a keen hunter in Africa

Mr J. H. Balmers Kaffir Boys. A Boy Choir from South Africa

Bakhtiari Women carrying water, Iran

Ona Indians from Tierra del Fuego
Ona Indians - Indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego, Southern Argentina, wearing Guanaco skin cloaks

A Raft of inflated sheeps skins
A Raft made up of inflated sheeps skins transports a group of Iraqi men across the Tigris River, Iraq

Norway - Sami Family in their tent
Sami People from Norway inside their tent

Delman Crocodile Shoes
Delman shoes made from the finest baby crocodile skins

Egypt - River Nile - Water carriers fill their water skins
Slightly before Mr Evian, Mr Volvic and Mr Malvern took a firm grip on the market, this is how visitors to Egypt were supplied with fresh drinking water

British soldiers in goat-skins: Wearing the new overcoat issued by the War Office for the winter campaign

Fur - Seal Hunting
Hunting seal for their skins on the coasts of Tierra del Fuego and the Falklands : eared seals (otarys) are much favoured

Fur - Beaver Hunting
Hunting beaver for their skins in North America

Fur - Bear Hunting
Hunting bear for their skins in northern Asia, Europe and America

Fur - Otter Hunting
Hunting otter for their skins especially those of Canada and Brazil which are the most prized

Tiger Skin Rug
The use of tiger skins as rugs is not only comfortable to the feet, but it symbolises man;s superiority to the animal

Hunting Squirrel
Hunting squirrel with dogs in Scandinavia - for their skins, presumably

Rabbit Skin Seller 1774
A Parisian seller of rabbit skins

Stitching Fur Cloaks
Men at tables in a workshop surrounded by pelts stitch fur cloaks. A customer lays down his money & places his order. The fur could possibly be ermine

Leadenhall Market 1825
The skin market at Leadenhall, in the parish of St Peter upon Cornhill in the City of London

Spanish couple
A Spanish couple

Stone Age men treat their wounds after hunting
Mens costume of the Stone Age is simple but practical, using animal skins to good effect : their teeth are used as ornaments, worn as necklaces

Leadenhall Market
LEADENHALL MARKET, apart from butchers, fishmongers and cheesemongers, houses dealers in leather, from the skins of the millions of animals slaughtered in the city

Adam & Eve Expelled
Adam and Eve have covered their nakedness with skins, but angels shoo them out of Eden : the snake, who caused the trouble in the first place, slinks away also

Stone Age Skins & Rope
Early man scraping skins and making rope, probably during the late Stone Age

Catlin / Sioux as Wolves
Sioux stalk buffalo disguised as wolves by wearing their skins on their backs

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