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Concept

Ethnology

Images

  • Africa: a group of African people standing on a kraal hut. Albumen print.
  • South Africa: Africans in front of a traditional kraal hut. Albumen print.
  • Northern expedition : just arrived from Baffin's Bay, to be seen, at no. 183 Piccadilly (opposite Burlington House,) the only two esquimaux indians, (male and female), brought to England from the frozen regions of the North ...
  • Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: African warriors preparing to dance. Albumen print.
  • A man of an Amazonian tribe, holding a spear and wearing a feathered head-dress, in a photographic studio.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Die Skelette aus den Alamannengräbern des Zürichsee-, Limmat- und Glattales, (inklusive Greifensee- und Pfäffikerseegebietes) : eine anthropologische Untersuchung Inaugural-Disertation ... / von Carl Schneiter.

    Schneiter, Carl, 1911- | Date: 1939
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    The human race / by Louis Figuier.

    | Date: 1872
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    Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples / Linda Tuhiwai Smith.

    Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, 1950- | Date: 2012
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    The tailed head-hunters of Nigeria : an account of an official's seven years' experiences in the Northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of some of its native tribes / by A.J.N. Tremearne.

    Tremearne, A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman), 1877-1915. | Date: 1912
    • Pictures

    A French woman posing naked and perched on the arm of a chair, in a photographic studio.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 3308220i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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