Stories
- Article
Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph
In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
- Comic
Groan
Groans are to our primitive nature what language is to civilization. Uggggghhhh.
- Article
Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
Catalogue
- Film
Primitive circumcision.
Date: 1935- Videos
Primitive circumcision.
Date: 1935- Books
Primitive obstetrics / Robert F. Spencer.
Spencer, Robert FDate: 1939-1951- Books
Primitive government / Lucy Mair.
Mair, Lucy, 1901-1986.Date: [1962]- Books
- Online
Primitive animals / by Geoffrey Smith.
Smith, Geoffrey, 1881-1916.Date: 1911