Africa: a group of African people standing on a kraal hut. Albumen print.

South Africa: Africans in front of a traditional kraal hut. Albumen print.

Northern expedition : just arrived from Baffin's Bay, to be seen, at no. 183 Piccadilly (opposite Burlington House,) the only two esquimaux indians, (male and female), brought to England from the frozen regions of the North ...

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: African warriors preparing to dance. Albumen print.

A man of an Amazonian tribe, holding a spear and wearing a feathered head-dress, in a photographic studio.

Africa: a group of African warriors. Albumen print.

No-tin, a chief of the Ojibwa tribe, with facial tattoes and wearing a feather headdress. Coloured lithograph by Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment after C. B. King, 1842.

Basket weavers. Gouache drawing.

Das Weib in der Natur- und Völkerkunde : anthropologische Studien / von Heinrich Ploss und Max Bartels.

Two young Kikuyu men, carrying sticks. Photograph, ca.1900.

Borneo: a Kenyah man demonstrating the blowpipe, Sarawak, North Borneo. Photograph attributed to Charles Hose.

Just arrived from Bullock's Museum, the greatest novelty in Hull : to be seen, at no. 13 Queen-Street, the only two esquimaux indians, ever brought to this kingdom : mal;e and female, from the frozen regions of the North ...

148 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Die Skelette aus den Alamannengräbern des Zürichsee-, Limmat- und Glattales, (inklusive Greifensee- und Pfäffikerseegebietes) : eine anthropologische Untersuchung Inaugural-Disertation ... / von Carl Schneiter.

xvi,548 pages, 8 colour preliminary leaves : illustrations

The human race / by Louis Figuier.

Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples / Linda Tuhiwai Smith.

xvi, 341 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, folded mapage ; 23 cm

The tailed head-hunters of Nigeria : an account of an official's seven years' experiences in the Northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of some of its native tribes / by A.J.N. Tremearne.

A French woman posing naked and perched on the arm of a chair, in a photographic studio.

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Die Skelette aus den Alamannengräbern des Zürichsee-, Limmat- und Glattales, (inklusive Greifensee- und Pfäffikerseegebietes) : eine anthropologische Untersuchung Inaugural-Disertation ... / von Carl Schneiter.

The human race / by Louis Figuier.

Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples / Linda Tuhiwai Smith.

The tailed head-hunters of Nigeria : an account of an official's seven years' experiences in the Northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of some of its native tribes / by A.J.N. Tremearne.

A French woman posing naked and perched on the arm of a chair, in a photographic studio.

Ethnology

Images from the collections

Images about Ethnology

Works from the collections

Die Skelette aus den Alamannengräbern des Zürichsee-, Limmat- und Glattales, (inklusive Greifensee- und Pfäffikerseegebietes) : eine anthropologische Untersuchung Inaugural-Disertation ... / von Carl Schneiter.

The human race / by Louis Figuier.

Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples / Linda Tuhiwai Smith.

The tailed head-hunters of Nigeria : an account of an official's seven years' experiences in the Northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of some of its native tribes / by A.J.N. Tremearne.

A French woman posing naked and perched on the arm of a chair, in a photographic studio.

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