Postcard showing side view of Spanish Inquisition Torture Chair, museum object number 4504.
Caption on front: Torture-Chair of the Spanish inquisition, 17th century, from Cuenca, Spain.
Postcard: Torture chair of Spanish Inquisition
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Slide of a woman in traditional dress
object | ARC/BAL/003/090
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de Zoete India photographic print: Shanta Rao (close-up) demonstrating dance posture and hand positions
object | ARC/DEZ/566/0190
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35mm slide: Gong in Dong village
object | ARC/BAL/005/149
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Woman processing fibre.
object | ARC/BAL/004/060
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