Consuming another individual of the same species as food

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Algunas... todavía no usan Reverin ... el antibiótico universal de amplio espectro para la terapéutica parenteral ... : Doctor no se arriesgue! : para su seguridad y la de su paciente recete Baralgina / Hoechst A.G. ; representantes: Farmaceutica Hoechst Mexicana, S.A.

Cannibals armed with machetes prepare to ambush a missionary. Drawing by G.H., 18--.

A witches' sabbath. Line engraving, 17--.

Brazil: Tupinamba Indians as cannibals enjoying a feast. Etching by T. de Bry.

A sick tribal chief consulting a witch-doctor admits to having eaten a German missionary. Pen drawing by F. Garnett.

Nine male prisoners in the Congo standing against a wall joined by chains around their necks. Process print after W.E. Geil.

A cannibal market trader is offering the limbs of missionaries for sale as food. Drawing attributed to Edwin Harcourt Burrage, 18--.

The cannibalism of the Aztecs ... : Did domesticated dogs and fowls exist in New-Spain at the arrival of conquerors?.

Verses composed on the disgraceful traffic at present carried on of raising and selling the newly buried dead / William Smith.

The great famine in China, 1958-1962 : a documentary history / edited by Zhou Xun.

Did Franz Boas witness an act of cannibalism? / Ralph Maud.

Cannibal talk : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.

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Cannibalism

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Images about Cannibalism

Works from the collections

The cannibalism of the Aztecs ... : Did domesticated dogs and fowls exist in New-Spain at the arrival of conquerors?.

Verses composed on the disgraceful traffic at present carried on of raising and selling the newly buried dead / William Smith.

The great famine in China, 1958-1962 : a documentary history / edited by Zhou Xun.

Did Franz Boas witness an act of cannibalism? / Ralph Maud.

Cannibal talk : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.

Cannibalism

Images from the collections

Images about Cannibalism

Works from the collections

The cannibalism of the Aztecs ... : Did domesticated dogs and fowls exist in New-Spain at the arrival of conquerors?.

Verses composed on the disgraceful traffic at present carried on of raising and selling the newly buried dead / William Smith.

The great famine in China, 1958-1962 : a documentary history / edited by Zhou Xun.

Did Franz Boas witness an act of cannibalism? / Ralph Maud.

Cannibal talk : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.

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