Temporary or permanent shelter, military, etc. or shed made with basic and natural elements (mud, branches, stone, straw or logs) or simple prefabricated structures

Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa. Coloured wood engraving by H. Hall after H.M. Stanley, ca.1872.

An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.

Krakatoa: plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) and coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in a forest clearing, with native man and his hut. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

A log cabin, which housed the first printing press at the head of Lake Superior. Process print after a lithograph of 1855.

South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.

Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.

A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.

Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.

A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.

Japanese huts and trees on two outcrops of rock either side of a channel of water. Watercolour.

A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.

A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.

1 drawing : chalk, with coloured chalk and pencil

World War One: a lone man digs in a dilapidated graveyard. Colour chalk drawing with pencil, c. 1914.

1 drawing : watercolour ; image 21.4 x 38.5 cm

A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 28.5 x 17.5 cm

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

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Huts

Images from the collections

Images referencing Huts

Works from the collections

Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.

World War One: a lone man digs in a dilapidated graveyard. Colour chalk drawing with pencil, c. 1914.

A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.

Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

Huts

Images from the collections

Images referencing Huts

Works from the collections

Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.

World War One: a lone man digs in a dilapidated graveyard. Colour chalk drawing with pencil, c. 1914.

A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.

Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

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