... Handbook to the ethnographical collections / With 15 plates, 275 illustrations and 3 maps.

  • British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography
Date:
1910
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Credit: ... Handbook to the ethnographical collections / With 15 plates, 275 illustrations and 3 maps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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