0.1. Alfred Gell, n.d. Worshippers before an Idol.
0.2. Alfred Gell, n.d. Preliminary sketch of the ‘art nexus’.
2.1. Bronze Age socketed axes from the late Bronze Age site at Tower Hill, Oxfordshire.
2.2. The Grotesque torc from Snettisham.
2.3. The Sutton scabbard.
2.4. Gallo-Belgic C coin abstraction.
3.1. Tomb of Mausolus of Caria, Halicarnassus, c. 350 BC. Reconstruction by Peter Jackson.
3.2. The Tomb Mound of the First Emperor, erected c. 221–210 BC.
3.3. The Terracotta Army. Pit 1. 221–210 BC.
3.4. Plan of Changtaiguan tomb M1, Xinyang, Henan Province. Fifth to fourth century BC.
3.5. Early Chinese funerary figurines.
(a) From Mashan, Jiangling, Hubei. Fourth century BC.
(b) Wooden figure of a warrior, from a fourth century BC Chu tomb.
(c) From Bao Shan, Hubei.
3.6 (a) Terracotta armoured infantry man, from Pit 1. 221–210 BC.
(b) Characters identifying responsible producers, on the back of a figure.
3.7. (a–b) Slabs 1014 and 1021 from the Amazonomachy Frieze of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, c. 350 BC.
4.1. Duchamp, Marcel (1887–1968). Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, oil on canvas, 1912.
4.2. Duchamp, Marcel (1887–1968). Network of Stoppages, 1914.
4.3. Alfred Gell, model of Husserl’s internal time-consciousness.
4.4. Alfred Gell, The artist’s oeuvre as a temporal-relational diagram.
5.1. Marcel Duchamp, Pharmacy, from View, New York, magazine containing a rectified readymade after the original of 1914.
5.2. Marcel Duchamp, The Box in a Valise 1935–1941 (leather-covered case containing miniature replicas and photographs).
7.1. G. Whitney, A Choice of Emblemes (Leiden: C. Plantin, 1586), sig. R2r (‘Scripta manent’).
8.1. Body paintings on initiates at a Yolngu circumcision ceremony. The boys lie still for several hours while the designs are painted on their chests. They are surrounded by members of clans of their own moiety who sing songs that relate to the paintings that are being produced, referring to the journeys of the ancestral beings manifest in the images.
8.2. The Family of Felipe IV, or Las Meninas, by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1656).
8.3. Esa u kum women dancing disco kere at Hausline village.
8.4. Migu performing kere in conventional manner at Hausline village.