Ethnographer and writer Václav Šolc (1919–1995) utilised photography as an important tool for his research. Presently, he is the second most featured contributor in the Náprstek Museum Ethnographic Photographic Collection. This study employs digitized documentation as well as the images in the…

Enrique Stanko Vráz (1860–1932) was a multifaceted individual known for his roles as a traveller, photographer, hunter, and collector of natural history specimens and artifacts from non-European cultures. While travelling through equatorial South America up the Amazon River from 1892 to 1893, he…

This paper deals with the Japanese collection of Růžena Trnožková who lived in Japan in 1918 and collected the Japanese and Chinese objects. In 1936, she donated her collection, which consisted of almost 250 items, to the Náprstek Museum. The collection includes objects mainly made during the 19th…