Robe from the Chilkat country, NW. Coast of America.
Robe from the Chilkat country, NW. Coast of America.
Category: 19th Century
Host of a Black bar in the north of Brazil
Host of a Black bar in the north of Brazil
Historic costumes from Hardanger, Norway 1888.
Historic costumes from Hardanger, Norway 1888.
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Harvester at Berkshire County Mass. 1899
Harvester at Berkshire County Mass. 1899
Various opium pipes. Opium smocking in Shanghai 1899.
The native opium grown in China, is generally considered the most inferior, and the Indian opium, especially Malwa and Patna, the best.
Peasant girl of the village of Kieg island, Arkhangelsk.
Russian peasant girl of the village of Kieg island, Arkhangelsk. Russia 1899
Usagara, Chief of Mamboya, with his son and witch doctor.
Usagara, Tanzania. Chief of Mamboya, with his son and witch doctor.
Zulu Warrior. Zulu-Kraal. South Africa 1899.
Zulu Warrior. South Africa 1899. Wedding dance, ornaments utensils, interior hut.
Ali Baba and the forty thieves by Walter Crane.
Ali Baba and the forty thieves by Walter Crane. In the Arabic version of Thousand and One Nights this story was not yet contained.
Women from Aden, Somalia 1885.
Women from Aden, Somalia 1885.
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