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Cutting from The Illustrated London News (6 September 1845) about 2 Hottentot bushmen children being exhibited at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London.

Freak shows ephemera. Box 5

Bushmen children.

1 print : aquatint, with etching ; platemark 15.8 x 22 cm

Khoi people of the Gonaqua kingdom, southern Africa. Aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1819, after F. Le Vaillant.

26 unnumbered pages, 452 page, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait), folded map ; (4to)

Beschreibung des Vorgebürges der guten Hoffnung und derer darauf wohnenden Hottentotten. Worinnen von der natürlichen Beschaffenheit des Landes, von den Gebräuchen der Einwohner, ingleichen von der Einrichtung dasiger holländischer Colonien zuverlässige Nachricht gegeben wird / Gezogen aus den Anmerckungen des Herrn M. Peter Kolbens ... Mit einer Land-Charte und vielen Kupfern. [Tr. by F.W. Beer from J. Bertrand's French abridgement].

Small poster advertising the exhibition of the Hottentot Venus, a black woman (presumably Sarah Baartman, 1789-1815) from "the most southern parts of Africa" in what was probably seen in the less enlightened days of 1810 as a travelling "freak show". People from various racial backgrounds toured these show circuits, dressed in traditional costume, entertaining people who had never seen other than local, white people before. Sarah Baartman was extensivley toured, exhibited and subsequently dissected upon her death in 1815.

Freak shows ephemera, box 2.

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.

Top left, a man and a woman "Des Hottentots". Top right, a man and a woman "Des Namaquas". Top centre, map of the area. Below, eight animals including the rhinoceros

Cape of Good Hope: customs, costumes and animals. Engraving, 1732.

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

Monographs in human genetics

ix, [i], 126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Health and the hunter-gatherer : biomedical studies on the hunting and gathering populations of Southern Africa / G.T. Nurse and T. Jenkins.

Two Khoikhoi people (South African tribe) tearing the intestines of an ox apart to eat; four men seated in the background, one of them eating intestines of the ox. Engraving, 1768

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Bushmen children.

Khoi people of the Gonaqua kingdom, southern Africa. Aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1819, after F. Le Vaillant.

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.

Cape of Good Hope: customs, costumes and animals. Engraving, 1732.

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

Health and the hunter-gatherer : biomedical studies on the hunting and gathering populations of Southern Africa / G.T. Nurse and T. Jenkins.

Two Khoikhoi people (South African tribe) tearing the intestines of an ox apart to eat; four men seated in the background, one of them eating intestines of the ox. Engraving, 1768

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Khoi people of the Gonaqua kingdom, southern Africa. Aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1819, after F. Le Vaillant.

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.

Cape of Good Hope: customs, costumes and animals. Engraving, 1732.

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

Health and the hunter-gatherer : biomedical studies on the hunting and gathering populations of Southern Africa / G.T. Nurse and T. Jenkins.

Two Khoikhoi people (South African tribe) tearing the intestines of an ox apart to eat; four men seated in the background, one of them eating intestines of the ox. Engraving, 1768

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