Ethnographic Drawings

“Siva Dance at Night, with a letter to his son, Bancel La Farge”

John La Farge, 1890

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“Muc-queche, Cu-hangana, Forest Gods”

Angola

Unknown artist, 1881

(from the Hermenegildo Capelo and Roberto Ivens’ sketchbooks)

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“House at Tsuk”

“House with Sago Namgo, Lo Monthang”

“School, Chabahil Dhoka”

“Earshield, Nosering and Female Necklaces”

Nepal

Robert Powell, 1986-2000

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“Andaman Islanders”

Unknown artist, 1896

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Mandan (USA)

George Catlin, 1867

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“The Bihenos Constructing Huts in the Encampments”

“Skeleton of a Hut”

“Hut built in an hour”

“The Sova Mavanda, masked, and Dancing in my Camp”

Angola

“Mr. Cooper”, 1881

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Angola

Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, 1877 (sketchbook)

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“Diagramatic representations of colour distributions”

“Baked-mud grindstone with wooden grinder”

“Calf’s bell-necklace of palm nuts”

Nuer (Sudan)

Unknown artist(s), 1940

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Aragon, Spain

Julio Alvar, 1987

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Brittany, France

Olivier Perrin, 1835

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