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| 1. | Pictorial representation of African races | Frontispiece. |
| 2. | Kaffir from childhood to age | 13 |
| 3. | Old councillor and wives | 13 |
| 4. | Kaffir cradle | 18 |
| 5. | Young Kaffir armed | 21 |
| 6. | Kaffir postman | 21 |
| 7. | Unmarried Kaffir girls | 25 |
| 8. | Old Kaffir women | 25 |
| 9. | Kaffir ornaments—necklaces, belt, etc. | 33 |
| 10. | Kaffir needles and sheaths | 33 |
| 11. | Articles of costume | 33 |
| 12. | Dolls representing the Kaffir dress | 33 |
| 13. | Bracelets made of the hoof of the bluebok | 39 |
| 14. | Apron of chief’s wife | 39 |
| 15. | Ivory armlets | 39 |
| 16. | Necklaces—beads and teeth | 39 |
| 17. | Young Kaffir in full dress | 43 |
| 18. | Girl in dancing dress | 43 |
| 19. | Kaffir ornaments | 49 |
| 20. | Dress and ornaments | 49 |
| 21. | The Kaffirs at home | 57 |
| 22. | Interior of a Kaffir hut | 63 |
| 23. | A Kaffir kraal | 63 |
| 24. | A Kaffir milking bowl | 67 |
| 25. | A Kaffir beer bowl | 67 |
| 26. | A Kaffir beer strainer | 67 |
| 27. | A Kaffir water pipe | 67 |
| 28. | Woman’s basket | 67 |
| 29. | Kaffir cattle—training the horns | 73 |
| 30. | Return of a Kaffir war party | 73 |
| 31. | Procession of the bride | 83 |
| 32. | Kaffir passing his mother-in-law | 88 |
| 33. | Bridegroom on approval | 97 |
| 34. | Kaffir at his forge | 97 |
| 35. | Spoons for eating porridge | 103 |
| 36. | Group of assagais | 103 |
| 37. | Kaffir warriors skirmishing | 111 |
| 38. | Muscular advocacy | 111 |
| 39. | Goza, the Kaffir chief, in ordinary undress | 117 |
| 40. | Goza in full war dress, with his councillors | 117 |
| 41. | Panda’s review | 121 |
| 42. | Hunting scene in Kaffirland | 121 |
| 43. | Cooking elephant’s foot | 133 |
| 44. | A Kaffir dinner party | 145 |
| 45. | Soldiers lapping water | 145 |
| 46. | A Kaffir harp | 155 |
| 47. | Exterior of a Kaffir hut | 155 |
| 48. | Spoon, ladle, skimmers | 155 |
| 49. | A Kaffir water pipe | 155 |
| 50. | A Kaffir fowl house | 155 |
| 51. | Necklace made of human finger bones | 167 |
| 52. | A remarkable gourd snuff-box | 167 |
| 53. | Poor man’s pipe | 167 |
| 54. | Kaffir gentlemen smoking | 167 |
| 55. | The prophet’s school | 174 |
| 56. | The prophet’s return | 174 |
| 57. | Old Kaffir prophets | 177 |
| 58. | The Kaffir prophetess at work | 188 |
| 59. | Unfavorable prophecy | 188 |
| 60. | Preserved head | 203 |
| 61. | Head of Mundurucú chief | 203 |
| 62. | Burial of King Tchaka’s mother | 203 |
| 63. | Dingan, the Kaffir monarch, at home | 209 |
| 64. | Kaffir women quarrelling | 209 |
| 65. | Hottentot girl | 219 |
| 66. | Hottentot woman | 219 |
| 67. | Hottentot young man | 223 |
| 68. | Hottentot in full dress | 223 |
| 69. | Hottentot kraal | 229 |
| 70. | Card playing by Hottentots | 237 |
| 71. | Bosjesman shooting cattle | 237 |
| 72. | Grapple plant | 247 |
| 73. | Bosjesman woman and child | 247 |
| 74. | Hottentots asleep | 247 |
| 75. | Bosjesman quiver | 247 |
| 76. | Frontlet of Hottentot girl | 247 |
| 77. | Poison grub | 259 |
| 78. | Portrait of Koranna chief | 271 |
| 79. | Namaquas shooting at the storm | 271 |
| 80. | Knife and assagai heads | 281 |
| 81. | Bechuana knives | 281 |
| 82. | A Bechuana apron | 281 |
| 83. | Ornament made of monkeys’ teeth | 281 |
| 84. | Bechuana parliament | 287 |
| 85. | Female architects among the Bechuanas | 287 |
| 86. | Magic dice of the Bechuanas | 292 |
| 87. | Spartan practices among the Bechuanas | 294 |
| 88. | The girl’s ordeal among the Bechuanas | 294 |
| 89. | Plan of Bechuana house | 299 |
| 90. | Bechuana funeral | 302 |
| 91. | Grave and monument of Damara chief | 302 |
| 92. | Damara warrior and wife | 308 |
| 93. | Damara girl resting | 308 |
| 94. | Portrait of Ovambo girl | 317 |
| 95. | Ovambo women pounding corn | 317 |
| 96. | Ovambo houses | 329 |
| 97. | Makololo house building | 329 |
| 98. | Children’s games among the Makololo | 333 |
| 99. | M’Bopo, a Makololo chief, at home | 333 |
| 100. | Spearing the hippopotamus | 343 |
| 101. | The final attack | 343 |
| 102. | Boating scene on the Bo-tlet-le River | 351 |
| 103. | Batoka salutation | 351 |
| 104. | Batoka men | 357 |
| 105. | Pelele, or lip ring, of the Manganjas | 357 |
| 106. | Hippopotamus trap | 363 |
| 107. | Axes of the Banyai | 363 |
| 108. | The marimba, or African piano | 371 |
| 109. | Singular headdress of the Balonda women | 371 |
| 110. | Wagogo greediness | 387 |
| 111. | Architecture of the Weezee | 387 |
| 112. | A husband’s welcome among the Weezee | 391 |
| 113. | Sultan Ukulima drinking pombé | 391 |
| 114. | Harvest scene among the Wanyamuezi | 397 |
| 115. | Salutation by the Watusi | 397 |
| 116. | Rumanika’s private band | 404 |
| 117. | Arrest of the queen | 412 |
| 118. | Reception of a visitor by the Waganda | 417 |
| 119. | The magician of Unyoro at work | 417 |
| 120. | Wanyoro culprit in the shoe | 423 |
| 121. | Group of Gani and Madi | 431 |
| 122. | Removal of a village by Madi | 431 |
| 123. | Group of the Kytch tribe | 437 |
| 124. | Neam-Nam fighting | 437 |
| 125. | Wooden chiefs of the Dôr | 449 |
| 126. | Scalp-locks of the Djibbas | 449 |
| 127. | Bracelets of the Djibbas | 449 |
| 128. | Ornaments of the Djour | 449 |
| 129. | Women’s knives | 449 |
| 130. | A Nuehr helmet | 449 |
| 131. | The Latooka victory | 457 |
| 132. | Gorilla hunting by the Fans | 457 |
| 133. | A Bari homestead | 465 |
| 134. | Funeral dance of the Latookas | 465 |
| 135. | The ceremony of M’paza | 478 |
| 136. | Obongo market | 478 |
| 137. | The giant dance of the Aponos | 486 |
| 138. | Fishing scene among the Bakalai | 486 |
| 139. | Ashira farewell | 499 |
| 140. | Olenda’s salutation to an Ishogo chief | 499 |
| 141. | A Camma dance | 508 |
| 142. | Quengueza’s (chief of the Camma) walk | 508 |
| 143. | The Camma fetish man ejecting a demon | 517 |
| 144. | Olanga drinking mboundou | 517 |
| 145. | Fate of the Shekiani wizard | 526 |
| 146. | The Mpongwé coronation | 526 |
| 147. | Attack on a Mpongwé village | 537 |
| 148. | Bargaining for a wife by the Fanti | 537 |
| 149. | The primeval child in Dahome | 552 |
| 150. | Fetishes, male and female, of the Krumen | 552 |
| 151. | Dahoman ivory trumpets | 558 |
| 152. | Dahoman war drum | 558 |
| 153. | War knives of the Fanti | 558 |
| 154. | Fetish trumpet and drum | 558 |
| 155. | Ashanti caboceer and soldiers | 564 |
| 156. | Punishment of a snake killer | 564 |
| 157. | “The bell comes” | 569 |
| 158. | Dahoman amazons | 569 |
| 159. | Amazon review | 576 |
| 160. | The Dahoman king’s dance | 576 |
| 161. | The basket sacrifice in Dahome | 583 |
| 162. | Head worship in Dahome | 595 |
| 163. | The attack on Abeokuta | 595 |
| 164. | The Alaké’s (king of the Egbas) court | 605 |
| 165. | Mumbo Jumbo | 605 |
| 166. | A Bubé marriage | 612 |
| 167. | Kanemboo man and woman | 612 |
| 168. | Washing day in Abyssinia | 617 |
| 169. | A Congo coronation | 617 |
| 170. | Ju-ju execution | 619 |
| 171. | Shooa women | 631 |
| 172. | Tuaricks and Tibboos | 631 |
| 173. | Begharmi lancers | 638 |
| 174. | Musgu chief | 638 |
| 175. | Dinner party in Abyssinia | 643 |
| 176. | Abyssinian heads | 643 |
| 177. | King Theodore and the lions | 652 |
| 178. | Pleaders in the courts | 652 |
| 179. | A battle between Abyssinians and Gallas | 662 |
| 180. | Interior of an Abyssinian house | 662 |
| 181. | Buffalo dance in Abyssinia | 670 |
| 182. | Bedouin camp | 670 |
| 183. | Hunting the hippopotamus | 679 |
| 184. | Travellers and the mirage | 679 |
| 185. | Travelling in Madagascar | 692 |
| 186. | Australian man and woman | 698 |
| 187. | Women and old man of Lower Murray | 698 |
| 188. | Hunter and his day’s provision | 707 |
| 189. | The sea-grass cloak | 707 |
| 190. | Bee hunting | 716 |
| 191. | Australian cooking a snake | 716 |
| 192. | Australian tomahawks | 722 |
| 193. | Australian clubs | 722 |
| 194. | Australian saw | 722 |
| 195. | Tattooing chisels | 722 |
| 196. | Man of Torres Strait | 722 |
| 197. | Basket—South Australia | 722 |
| 198. | Heads of Australian spears | 731 |
| 199. | Throw-sticks of the Australians | 731 |
| 200. | Boomerangs of the Australians | 731 |
| 201. | Spearing the kangaroo | 739 |
| 202. | Catching the cormorant | 739 |
| 203. | Australian shields | 742 |
| 204. | The kuri dance | 749 |
| 205. | Palti dance, or corrobboree | 749 |
| 206. | An Australian feast | 759 |
| 207. | Australian mothers | 759 |
| 208. | Mintalta, a Nauo man | 765 |
| 209. | Young man and boy of South Australia | 765 |
| 210. | Hut for cure of disease | 765 |
| 211. | Tomb of skulls | 765 |
| [212]. | Tree tomb of Australia | 775 |
| [213]. | Smoking bodies of slain warriors | 775 |
| [214]. | Carved feather box | 775 |
| [215]. | Australian widows and their caps | 781 |
| [216]. | Cave with native drawings | 781 |
| [217]. | Winter huts in Australia | 787 |
| [218]. | A summer encampment | 787 |
| [219]. | New Zealander from childhood to age | 794 |
| [220]. | Woman and boy of New Zealand | 803 |
| [221]. | A tattooed chief and his wife | 803 |
| [222]. | Maori women making mats | 809 |
| [223]. | The Tangi | 809 |
| [224]. | Parátene Maioha in his state war cloak | 820 |
| [225]. | The chiefs daughter | 820 |
| [226]. | Hongi-hongi, chief of Waipa | 820 |
| [227]. | Maories preparing for a feast | 831 |
| [228]. | Maori chiefs’ storehouses | 831 |
| [229]. | Cannibal cookhouse | 835 |
| [230]. | Maori pah | 835 |
| [231]. | Green jade ornaments | 841 |
| [232]. | Maori weapons | 841 |
| [233]. | Wooden and bone merais | 841 |
| [234]. | Maori war dance | 847 |
| [235]. | Te Ohu, a native priest | 860 |
| [236]. | A tiki at Raroera pah | 860 |
| [237]. | Tiki from Whakapokoko | 860 |
| [238]. | Mourning over a dead chief | 872 |
| [239]. | Tomb of E’ Toki | 872 |
| [240]. | Rangihaeta’s war house | 877 |
| [241]. | Interior of a pah or village | 877 |
| [242]. | Maori paddles | 881 |
| [243]. | Green jade adze and chisel | 881 |
| [244]. | Common stone adze | 881 |
| [245]. | A Maori toko-toko | 881 |
| [246]. | New Caledonians defending their coast | 893 |
| [247]. | Andamaners cooking a pig | 893 |
| [248]. | A scene in the Nicobar Islands | 903 |
| [249]. | The Outanatas and their weapons | 903 |
| [250]. | The monkey men of Dourga Strait | 909 |
| [251]. | Canoes of New Guinea | 909 |
| [252]. | Huts of New Guinea | 916 |
| [253]. | Dance by torchlight in New Guinea | 916 |
| [254]. | The ambassador’s message | 924 |
| [255]. | The canoe in a breeze | 924 |
| [256]. | Presentation of the canoe | 937 |
| [257]. | A Fijian feast | 943 |
| [258]. | The fate of the boaster | 943 |
| [259]. | Fijian idol | 949 |
| [260]. | The orator’s flapper | 949 |
| [261]. | Fijian spear | 949 |
| [262]. | Fijian clubs | 949 |
| [263]. | A Fijian wedding | 957 |
| [264]. | House thatching by Fijians | 957 |
| [265]. | A Buré, or temple, in Fiji | 963 |
| [266]. | View in Makira harbor | 963 |
| [267]. | Man and woman of Vaté | 973 |
| [268]. | Woman and child of Vanikoro | 973 |
| [269]. | Daughter of Tongan chief | 973 |
| [270]. | Burial of a living king | 980 |
| [271]. | Interior of a Tongan house | 980 |
| [272]. | The kava party in Tonga | 988 |
| [273]. | Tongan plantation | 991 |
| [274]. | Ceremony of inachi | 991 |
| [275]. | The tow-tow | 999 |
| [276]. | Consulting a priest | 999 |
| [277]. | Tattooing day in Samoa | 1012 |
| [278]. | Cloth making by Samoan women | 1012 |
| [279]. | Samoan club | 1018 |
| [280]. | Armor of Samoan warrior | 1018 |
| [281]. | Beautiful paddle of Hervey Islanders | 1018 |
| [282]. | Ornamented adze magnified | 1018 |
| [283]. | Spear of Hervey Islanders | 1018 |
| [284]. | Shark tooth gauntlets | 1025 |
| [285]. | Samoan warriors exchanging defiance | 1027 |
| [286]. | Pigeon catching by Samoans | 1027 |
| [287]. | Battle scene in Hervey Islands | 1035 |
| [288]. | Village in Kingsmill Islands | 1035 |
| [289]. | Shark tooth spear | 1041 |
| [290]. | Shark’s jaw | 1041 |
| [291]. | Swords of Kingsmill Islanders | 1041 |
| [292]. | Tattooed chiefs of Marquesas | 1046 |
| [293]. | Marquesan chief’s hand | 1046 |
| [294]. | Neck ornament | 1046 |
| [295]. | Marquesan chief in war dress | 1046 |
| [296]. | The war dance of the Niuans | 1054 |
| [297]. | Tahitans presenting the cloth | 1054 |
| [298]. | Dressing the idols by Society Islanders | 1067 |
| [299]. | The human sacrifice by Tahitans | 1077 |
| [300]. | Corpse and chief mourner | 1077 |
| [301]. | Tane, the Tahitan god, returning home | 1084 |
| [302]. | Women and pet pig of Sandwich Islands | 1084 |
| [303]. | Kamehameha’s exploit with spears | 1089 |
| [304]. | Masked rowers | 1089 |
| [305]. | Surf swimming by Sandwich Islanders | 1093 |
| [306]. | Helmet of Sandwich Islanders | 1097 |
| [307]. | Feather idol of Sandwich Islanders | 1097 |
| [308]. | Wooden idol of Sandwich Islanders | 1097 |
| [309]. | Romanzoff Islanders, man and woman | 1101 |
| [310]. | Dyak warrior and dusum | 1101 |
| [311]. | Investiture of the rupack | 1105 |
| [312]. | Warrior’s dance among Pelew Islanders | 1105 |
| [313]. | Illinoan pirate and Saghai Dyak | 1113 |
| [314]. | Dyak women | 1113 |
| [315]. | Parang-latok of the Dyaks | 1122 |
| [316]. | Sumpitans of the Dyaks | 1122 |
| [317]. | Parang-ihlang of the Dyaks | 1122 |
| [318]. | The kris, or dagger, of the Dyaks | 1129 |
| [319]. | Shields of Dyak soldiers | 1129 |
| [320]. | A parang with charms | 1129 |
| [321]. | A Dyak spear | 1129 |
| [322]. | Canoe fight of the Dyaks | 1139 |
| [323]. | A Dyak wedding | 1139 |
| [324]. | A Dyak feast | 1147 |
| [325]. | A Bornean adze axe | 1152 |
| [326]. | A Dyak village | 1153 |
| [327]. | A Dyak house | 1153 |
| [328]. | Fuegian man and woman | 1163 |
| [329]. | Patagonian man and woman | 1163 |
| [330]. | A Fuegian settlement | 1169 |
| [331]. | Fuegians shifting quarters | 1169 |
| [332]. | Araucanian stirrups and spur | 1175 |
| [333]. | Araucanian lassos | 1175 |
| [334]. | Patagonian bolas | 1175 |
| [335]. | Spanish bit and Patagonian fittings | 1175 |
| [336]. | Patagonians hunting game | 1180 |
| [337]. | Patagonian village | 1187 |
| [338]. | Patagonian burial ground | 1187 |
| [339]. | A Mapuché family | 1201 |
| [340]. | Araucanian marriage | 1201 |
| [341]. | Mapuché medicine | 1207 |
| [342]. | Mapuché funeral | 1207 |
| [343]. | The macana club | 1212 |
| [344]. | Guianan arrows and tube | 1214 |
| [345]. | Gran Chaco Indians on the move | 1218 |
| [346]. | The ordeal of the “gloves” | 1218 |
| [347]. | Guianan blow guns | 1225 |
| [348]. | Guianan blow-gun arrow | 1225 |
| [349]. | Guianan winged arrows | 1225 |
| [350]. | Guianan cotton basket | 1225 |
| [351]. | Guianan quiver | 1225 |
| [352]. | Guianan arrows rolled around stick | 1225 |
| [353]. | Guianan arrows strung | 1225 |
| [354]. | Feathered arrows of the Macoushies | 1231 |
| [355]. | Cassava dish of the Macoushies | 1231 |
| [356]. | Guianan quake | 1231 |
| [357]. | Arrow heads of the Macoushies | 1231 |
| [358]. | Guianan turtle arrow | 1231 |
| [359]. | Guianan quiver for arrow heads | 1231 |
| [360]. | Feather apron of the Mundurucús | 1231 |
| [361]. | Head-dresses of the Macoushies | 1238 |
| [362]. | Guianan clubs | 1238 |
| [363]. | Guianan cradle | 1238 |
| [364]. | A Warau house | 1244 |
| [365]. | Lake dwellers of the Orinoco | 1244 |
| [366]. | Guianan tipiti and bowl | 1249 |
| [367]. | Guianan twin bottles | 1249 |
| [368]. | Feather apron of the Caribs | 1249 |
| [369]. | Bead apron of the Guianans | 1249 |
| [370]. | The spathe of the Waraus | 1249 |
| [371]. | The Maquarri dance | 1260 |
| [372]. | Shield wrestling of the Waraus | 1260 |
| [373]. | Jaguar bone flute of the Caribs | 1265 |
| [374]. | Rattle of the Guianans | 1265 |
| [375]. | Mexican stirrups | 1265 |
| [376]. | Iron and stone tomahawks | 1265 |
| [377]. | Indian shield and clubs | 1265 |
| [378]. | Mandan chief Mah-to-toh-pa and wife | 1277 |
| [379]. | A Crow chief | 1284 |
| [380]. | American Indians scalping | 1284 |
| [381]. | Flint-headed arrow | 1290 |
| [382]. | Camanchees riding | 1291 |
| [383]. | “Smoking” horses | 1291 |
| [384]. | Snow shoe | 1295 |
| [385]. | Bison hunting scene | 1299 |
| [386]. | Buffalo dance | 1299 |
| [387]. | The Mandan ordeal | 1305 |
| [388]. | The last race | 1305 |
| [389]. | The medicine man at work | 1311 |
| [390]. | The ball play of the Choctaws | 1311 |
| [391]. | Indian pipes | 1315 |
| [392]. | Ee-e-chin-che-a in war costume | 1318 |
| [393]. | Grandson of a Blackfoot chief | 1318 |
| [394]. | Pshan-shaw, a girl of the Riccarees | 1318 |
| [395]. | Flat-head woman and child | 1319 |
| [396]. | Indian canoe | 1322 |
| [397]. | Snow shoe dance | 1322 |
| [398]. | Dance to the medicine of the brave | 1322 |
| [399]. | The canoe race | 1327 |
| [400]. | Esquimaux dwellings | 1327 |
| [401]. | Esquimaux harpoon head | 1337 |
| [402]. | Burial of Blackbird, an Omaha chief | 1341 |
| [403]. | Esquimaux spearing the walrus | 1341 |
| [404]. | The kajak and its management | 1347 |
| [405]. | Esquimaux sledge driving | 1347 |
| [406]. | Wrist-guard of the Esquimaux | 1353 |
| [407]. | Esquimaux fish-hooks | 1353 |
| [408]. | Feathered arrows of Aht tribe | 1356 |
| [409]. | Ingenious fish-hook of the Ahts | 1357 |
| [410]. | Remarkable carved pipes of the Ahts | 1357 |
| [411]. | Bow of the Ahts of Vancouver’s Island | 1357 |
| [412]. | Beaver mask of the Aht tribe | 1357 |
| [413]. | Singular head-dress of the Aht chiefs | 1357 |
| [414]. | Decorated paddles of the Ahts | 1357 |
| [415]. | Canoe of the Ahts | 1361 |
| [416]. | Aht dance | 1367 |
| [417]. | Initiation of a dog eater | 1367 |
| [418]. | A Sowrah marriage | 1387 |
| [419]. | A Meriah sacrifice | 1387 |
| [420]. | Bows and quiver of Hindoos | 1394 |
| [421]. | Ingenious ruse of Bheel robbers | 1397 |
| [422]. | A Ghoorka attacked by a tiger | 1397 |
| [423]. | A Ghoorka necklace | 1403 |
| [424]. | A kookery of the Ghoorka tribe | 1403 |
| [425]. | The chakra or quoit weapon | 1403 |
| [426]. | Indian arms and armor | 1403 |
| [427]. | Suit of armor inlaid with gold | 1406 |
| [428]. | Chinese repeating crossbow | 1425 |
| [429]. | Mutual assistance | 1427 |
| [430]. | Chinese woman’s foot and shoe | 1428 |
| [431]. | Mandarin and wife | 1437 |
| [432]. | Various modes of torture | 1437 |
| [433]. | Mouth organ | 1445 |
| [434]. | Specimens of Chinese art | 1446 |
| [435]. | Decapitation of Chinese criminal | 1451 |
| [436]. | The street ballad-singer | 1451 |
| [437]. | Japanese lady in a storm | 1454 |
| [438]. | Japanese lady on horseback | 1455 |
| [439]. | Capture of the truant husbands | 1464 |
| [440]. | Candlestick and censers | 1465 |
| [441]. | Suit of Japanese armor | 1469 |
| [442]. | King S. S. P. M. Mongkut of Siam | 1469 |
| [443]. | Portrait of celebrated Siamese actress | 1469 |