Colour slide of buildings with women and animals
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Photograph of the construction site of the Horniman Museum's West Hall with a workhorse in the foreground, May 1933
Slide of men stripped to the waist with skewers with tassels on the end inserted into the skin on their backs
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Black and white negative of Wai Wai fisherman
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