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Pygmies

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  • [Cutting from The London Journal (1853?) titled: 'The earthmen in Southern Africa'. ].
  • Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris: or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To which is added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs and spinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly pretended / By Edward Tyson.
  • Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris: or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To which is added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs and spinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly pretended / By Edward Tyson.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    Three Pygmy men, wearing bones through their noses and ears.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 535648i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Books

    The pygmies. / By A. de Quatrefages ; translated by Frederick Starr.

    Quatrefages, A. de (Armand de), 1810-1892. | Date: 1895, ©1894
    • Books

    A philological essay concerning the pygmies of the ancients / by Edward Tyson ; now edited, with an introduction treating of pygmy races and fairy tales, by Bertram C.A. Windle.

    Tyson, Edward, 1650-1708. | Date: 1894
    • Pictures

    A group of Pygmy men, all wearing penis gourds, carrying bows and arrows.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 535661i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Pictures

    The Sudan: a pigmy man. Photograph by R.G. Archibald, 1911.

    Archibald, R. G. (Robert George), Sir, 1880-1953. | Date: 1911 | Reference: 494818i
    Part of: People and places around the Upper Nile and Gebel Lado, Equatorial Sudan.
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