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A View of the Cuttera built by Jaffeir Cawn at Muxadavad, pub. 1785-88. Creator: William Hodges
A View of the Cuttera built by Jaffeir Cawn at Muxadavad; Pl. 41. from Select Views in India ; pub. 1785-88 (coloured etching with aquatint)

A View of the Gaut at Etawa, on the Banks of the River Jumna, pub. 1785-88. Creator
A View of the Gaut at Etawa, on the Banks of the River Jumna, Pl. 26. from Select Views in India, pub. 1785-88 (aquatint)

Vol II South East Coast: Cafre nation, c1820-40. Creator: Sir John Barrow (1764-1848)
Vol II South East Coast: Cafre nation; Pl.64. from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne, c.1820-40 (colour lithograph). name derived from the Moslem word idolators; cafre/cafri/kaffir evolved during

Vol II Gonqui Hottentots of the Cape?, c1820-39. Creator: Gallo Gallina (1796-1874)
Vol II Gonqui Hottentots of the Cape whose skin is lighter than other Hottentots, and their noses less flat, and they are taller ; Pl. 57

Dance of Nautch Girls, pub. 1858. Creator: A. Soltykoff (1806?1859)
Dance of Nautch Girls, from Voyages in India, pub. by Smith, Elder & Co. 1858 (litho). In North India, Nautch is one of several styles of popular dance

Lucknow, the principal street, from Voyages in India, 1859. Creator: A. Soltykoff
Lucknow, the principal street, from Voyages in India, 1859 (litho). Lucknow is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh)

Indian-style post-chaise in the Punjab between Loudiana and Amritsar, 1859. Creator: A
Indian-style post-chaise in the Punjab between Loudiana and Amritsar, from Voyages in India, 1859 (litho). Voyages dans l Inde by Prince Alexis Soltykoff (1806-1859); A

A causto (clerk / scribe), pub. 1808-12. Creator: Franz Balthazar Solvyns (1760-1824)
A causto (clerk/scribe), from Les Hindous ou la Description de leurs Moeurs Coutumes et Ceremonies, pub. 1808-12 (coloured etching)

A cobbler, pub. 1808-12. Creator: Franz Balthazar Solvyns (1760-1824)
A cobbler, from Les Hindous ou la Description de leurs Moeurs Coutumes et Ceremonies, pub. 1808-12 (coloured etching). A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings

Korah Hottentots of the Cape on the move, Vol II, c1820-40. Creator: Sir John Barrow (1764-1848)
Korah Hottentots of the Cape on the move, Vol II Pl. 55. from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne, c.1820-40 (colour lithograph). From the collection by Giulio Ferrario (1767-1847) of Costumi dei

S Homo des be colored engraving, character of the feasts of St. John in Ciutadella, plays a key role in the El Jaleo

El Caixer Senyor, colored engraving, character of the feasts of St. John in Ciutadella, plays a central role in the so-called El Jaleo

Es Caixer Fadri, colored engraving, character of the feasts of St. John in Ciutadella, plays a key role in the so-called El Jaleo

Es Fabioler character of the festival of San Juan in Ciutadella, plays a key role in El Jaleo, colored engraving

Atlas as a primitive postclassic warrior preserved in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City

Young divinity

Huehuetl, representation in stone of a drum from Mexico City DF (Tlatelolco?)

Jade figurine, probably a child although the Olmecs used to represent adults with childlike features, it comes from Cerro de las Mesas (Veracruz)

Brest mask made of clay of 14 cm in height, comes from the archaeological site of Tlatilco, in the east of Mexico

Reproduction of the Jaws of Banyoles, jaw of a pre-neanderthal found in 1887 by Pere Alsius in a quarry of the Pla de la Formiga (Porqueras)

Virchow, c1893. Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821-1902), German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor and politician

Study of an Eskimo, c1917, (1928). Artist: Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen
Study of an Eskimo, c1917, (1928). Originally from The People of the Polar North by Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (1879-1933), Danish polar explorer and anthropologist

Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist, anthropologist and a naturalist, c1870. Artist: H Sluyter
Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist, anthropologist and a naturalist, c1870. A print from Nederlands Geschiedenis en Volksleven in Schetsen, by J van Lenner and J ter Gouw. (Leiden, AW Sijthoff, c1870)

Herman Boerhaave, 17th-18th century Dutch botanist, humanist and physician, c1870. Artist: CL van Kesteren
Herman Boerhaave, 17th-18th century Dutch botanist, humanist and physician, c1870. A print from Nederlands Geschiedenis en Volksleven in Schetsen, by J van Lenner and J ter Gouw

Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maklai, Russian anthropologist, Queensland, Australia, c1880. An early supporter of the theories of Charles Darwin

Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Russian ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist, 1886. Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) was the first Russian anthropologist to refute the view that different races of humans

Java Man (Pithecanthropus erectus). Reconstruction based on a skull cap, thigh bone and two back teeth discovered in Pliocene fossil beds in Trinil, Central Java, by Dr Eugene Dubois in 1894

Five types of the human race, late 19th century. Based on his analysis of human skulls, German physiologist and anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840)

Bag for sliding caliper used by Dr. Montague Cobb, mid 20th century. Creator: Unknown
William Montague Cobb (1904-1990) was an African-American physician, physical anthropologist and civil rights activist. A professor at Howard University

Sliding caliper used by Dr. Montague Cobb, mid 20th century. Creator: Unknown
Physician and physical anthropologist William Montague Cobb (1904-1990) was the first African-American Ph.D in anthropology. He was also involved in civil rights activism

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