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An Indian man seated. Gouache painting.

An Indian man sits with a smoking hookah on his knee. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1846, after D. Wilkie.

An Indian man smoking a nariel, or cocoa nut hooka. Coloured stipple and line etching, c. 1804, after F. Solvyns.

Singapore: three native people known as "klings", and one "dhirzie" or tailor. Photographs by J. Taylor, c. 1880.

Six Indian men smoking a variety of pipes and hookas. Coloured aquatint with etching by A. Biasioli, c. 1815.

Tribal health and medicines / edited by A.K. Kalla and P.C. Joshi.

I made my home in England / by Savitri Chowdhary.

Indian barbers at work. Gouache painting.

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Tribal health and medicines / edited by A.K. Kalla and P.C. Joshi.

I made my home in England / by Savitri Chowdhary.

An Indian man sits with a smoking hookah on his knee. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1846, after D. Wilkie.

Indian barbers at work. Gouache painting.

An Indian man smoking a nariel, or cocoa nut hooka. Coloured stipple and line etching, c. 1804, after F. Solvyns.