Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Human skulls of different racial types: eleven figures also including the skull of an ape, and a graph demonstrating different angles. Etching, ca. 1871.
Human skulls of different racial types: eleven figures also including the skull of an ape, and a graph demonstrating different angles. Etching, ca. 1871.
Wellcome Collection

Human skulls of different racial types: eleven figures also including the skull of an ape, and a graph demonstrating different angles. Etching, ca. 1871.

1871

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Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Menschenrassen und Antlitzwinkel ; Kaukasier (Iran) ; Kaukasierschadel (von oben) ; Amerikaneer (Saki Indianer) ; Mongole (Turan) ; Malaye ; Neger (Congo) ; Negerschadël (von oben) ; Buschmann (Cap Rilfles) ; Affe (Cercopitheous Sabaeus L.) ; Schiefhaupt (Peru) ; antlitzwinkel.

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