C. & F.W. Dammann n.d. Ethnological Photographic Gallery of the Various Races of Men, Plate 23
Book plate 12 7/16 x 15 15/16 ins
George Eastman Museum C. & F.W. Dammann's Ethnological Photographic Gallery of the Various Races of Men typifies the British colonial attitude as it presents eight carte-sized plates of native people in the "Continent of Australia" section with this accompanying text: "There is a great diversity in the characters of the different tribes; many are intelligent and inoffensive, some are fierce and in a state of the rudest barbarism. There is no doubt that some of the tribes indulge in cannibalism." (Stoke's Australia).
