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Hottentotten und Prostituierte : zu einer Ikonographie der sexualisierten Frau / Sander L. Gilman.
Gilman, Sander L.Date: 1984
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A "Hottentot" woman with prominent buttocks. Watercolour painting.
Reference: 3096i
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A "Hottentot" woman with large labia pudendi. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
Date: 1810Reference: 90i
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Black Venus, 2010 : they called her "Hottentot" / edited by Deborah Willis ; with research assistance by Carla Williams.
Date: 2010
Archives and manuscripts
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Notes, papers and correspondence re `The Hottentot Venus'
Date: 1930-1964Reference: RAMC/1139/LP/63/1-19
Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
Archives and manuscripts
Memorandum re Captain D. Davies's command of the Hottentot levies
Date: Jan 1851Reference: RAMC/397/D/GO/2/4
Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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Observations on the skeleton of a Hottentot / by Jeffries Wyman.
Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874.Date: [1863?]
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The ranelean religion displayed. In a letter from a Hottentot of distinction, now in London, to his friend at the Cape of Good-Hope. Containing the reasons assign'd by the Raneleans for abolishing Christianity, together with a true Copy of their New Litur
Hottentot of distinction
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Cape Bush, South Africa: a Hottentot boy playing a harmonica. Photograph by Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin.
Duggan-Cronin, A. M. (Alfred Martin), 1874-1954.Reference: 541322i
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Printed notices re progress of the war, including disputes between the Kaffirs and the Hottentots and the arrest of Hottentot spies
Date: March-July 1851Reference: RAMC/397/D/GO/1/10-12
Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus : a ghost story and a biography / Clifton Crais & Pamela Scully.
Crais, Clifton C.Date: [2009], ©2009
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The Hottentot Venus : the life and death of Saartjie Baartman : born 1789 - buried 2002 / Rachel Holmes.
Holmes, Rachel.Date: 2007
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Gyri of the brain: three figures, one of a European, one of the "Hottentot Venus", and one of an African Bushwoman. Lithograph by E.M. Williams after H. Watkins, 1864.
Marshall, John, 1818-1891.Date: [1864]Reference: 642782i
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An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
Orr, Monro S.Date: 1913Reference: 15801i
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Two old Korana women and Boskop type of skull in a modern Hottentot, plate XIV in Human Ancestry From a Genetical Point of View, by R. Ruggles Gates, Harvard University Press, 1948
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Strolabella a comical romance, containing an humourous and diverting history of a company of stroling [sic] players, with an account of the origin, progress, and declension of the vagrantes, or itinerant actors; ... Compiled by a celebrated Hottentot phil
Bulkeley, Richard
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Lord Grenville, Prime Minister and leader of the Broad Bottoms faction, meets Sarah Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus": on account of their similar body-mass, a dynastic marriage is considered. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, 1810.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 15 of Nov. [1810]Reference: 33012i
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Just arrived from London, and, by permission, will be exhibited here for a few days at Mr. James's Sale Rooms, corner of Lord-street : that most wonderful phenomenom of nature, the Hottentot Venus : the only one ever exhibited in Europe.
Date: [1810]
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Paul Broca, Memoires d'Anthropologie, 1877
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Observations sur le tablier des femmes Hottentotes
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Francois Peron and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, "Observations sur le Tablier des femmes Hottentotes"
Péron , François Auguste (1775-1810), French naturalist and explorerDate: 1805Reference: MS.8839
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Weatherwise's town and country almanack, for ... 1781 : ... With a variety of entertaining pieces in prose and verse. Embellished with a large and beautiful copperplate frontispiece, representing a picturesque view of Great-Britain. Also ... a likeness of General Washington: a figure of a male Hottentot: the anatomy of man's body, as governed by the twelve constellations; [&c.] / [Benjamin West].
West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.Date: [1781]
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Paul Broca, Memoires d'Anthropologie, 1877
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Printed General Orders re war against the Boers, Kaffirs and Hottentots
Date: March 1851Reference: RAMC/397/D/GO/1/3-9
Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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The Khoisan peoples of South Africa : Bushmen and Hottentots / by I. Schapera.
Schapera, Isaac, 1905-2003.Date: 1930

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Hottentotten und Prostituierte : zu einer Ikonographie der sexualisierten Frau / Sander L. Gilman.

A "Hottentot" woman with prominent buttocks. Watercolour painting.

A "Hottentot" woman with large labia pudendi. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.

Black Venus, 2010 : they called her "Hottentot" / edited by Deborah Willis ; with research assistance by Carla Williams.

Notes, papers and correspondence re `The Hottentot Venus'

Memorandum re Captain D. Davies's command of the Hottentot levies

Observations on the skeleton of a Hottentot / by Jeffries Wyman.

The ranelean religion displayed. In a letter from a Hottentot of distinction, now in London, to his friend at the Cape of Good-Hope. Containing the reasons assign'd by the Raneleans for abolishing Christianity, together with a true Copy of their New Litur

Cape Bush, South Africa: a Hottentot boy playing a harmonica. Photograph by Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin.

Printed notices re progress of the war, including disputes between the Kaffirs and the Hottentots and the arrest of Hottentot spies

Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus : a ghost story and a biography / Clifton Crais & Pamela Scully.

The Hottentot Venus : the life and death of Saartjie Baartman : born 1789 - buried 2002 / Rachel Holmes.

Gyri of the brain: three figures, one of a European, one of the "Hottentot Venus", and one of an African Bushwoman. Lithograph by E.M. Williams after H. Watkins, 1864.

An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

Two old Korana women and Boskop type of skull in a modern Hottentot, plate XIV in Human Ancestry From a Genetical Point of View, by R. Ruggles Gates, Harvard University Press, 1948

Strolabella a comical romance, containing an humourous and diverting history of a company of stroling [sic] players, with an account of the origin, progress, and declension of the vagrantes, or itinerant actors; ... Compiled by a celebrated Hottentot phil

Lord Grenville, Prime Minister and leader of the Broad Bottoms faction, meets Sarah Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus": on account of their similar body-mass, a dynastic marriage is considered. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, 1810.

Just arrived from London, and, by permission, will be exhibited here for a few days at Mr. James's Sale Rooms, corner of Lord-street : that most wonderful phenomenom of nature, the Hottentot Venus : the only one ever exhibited in Europe.

Paul Broca, Memoires d'Anthropologie, 1877

Observations sur le tablier des femmes Hottentotes

Francois Peron and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, "Observations sur le Tablier des femmes Hottentotes"

Paul Broca, Memoires d'Anthropologie, 1877

Printed General Orders re war against the Boers, Kaffirs and Hottentots

The Khoisan peoples of South Africa : Bushmen and Hottentots / by I. Schapera.