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A Zulu baby adorned in jewelry lifting the lid on a cooking pot. Picture taken in 1916 at Adams MIssion Station.

Written Siamese Document, May 6, 1898

Photograph take by Augustin Kramer.
Taken from Kurt Lampert's book, n.d. Die Volker der Erde. Eine Schilderung der Lebensweise, der Sitten, Gebrauche, feste und Zeremonien aller lebenden Volker, 2 vols. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Deutsche…

Typed Siamese Document, 1898

Fishing knife

One long tapering cylindrical piece of wood and one short curved rectangular piece of wood both with shark teeth tied on in rows by reed twine and human hair.

Three-pronged dagger with wooden frame; rows of shark teeth bound by twine and human hair with fish skin binding on handle.

Cover of Sophia Royce Bradley's Diary, 1836