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Four head and shoulder portraits in roundels, and an oblong picture in the centre of a woman with a baby on her back

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 25 x 18.2 cm

Brazil: Krenak people (Botocudos) with lip-plugs and ear-plugs (Botocudos). Photograph.

Very similar to a photograph of a woman of the Sara tribe published in Jean Brunhes, Races, Paris 1930 (Wellcome Library catalogue no. 645684i)
The bust may have been produced by Malvina Hoffman for her exhibition "The races of mankind" commissioned by the Field Museum, Chicago, in 1930 and on exhibition from 1933 to 1968

1 print : process print ; sheet 13.9 x 9 cm

Central African Republic (Ubangi Shari): a woman with greatly distended upper and lower lips. Process print after a bronze sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, ca. 1933.

1 print : photograph ; sheet 15.6 x 11.2 cm

Chad (?): a woman of the Sara tribe with greatly distended upper and lower lips. Photograph of process print, 19--.

1 photograph : photoprint ; image 18 x 13 cm

Africa: a woman with scarification on her chest and arms, and with plugs in her ear-lobes and lower lip. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 19--.

They have lip- and ear-plugs. They carry a bow and arrows, spears and a blowpipe

1 print : aquatint, with gouache ; platemark 23.2 x 30.7 cm

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Brazil: Krenak people (Botocudos) with lip-plugs and ear-plugs (Botocudos). Photograph.

Central African Republic (Ubangi Shari): a woman with greatly distended upper and lower lips. Process print after a bronze sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, ca. 1933.

Chad (?): a woman of the Sara tribe with greatly distended upper and lower lips. Photograph of process print, 19--.

Africa: a woman with scarification on her chest and arms, and with plugs in her ear-lobes and lower lip. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 19--.

Botocudo people of the Rio-Grande de Belmonte, Brazil. Coloured aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1821, after M. Wied-Neuwied.

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Brazil: Krenak people (Botocudos) with lip-plugs and ear-plugs (Botocudos). Photograph.

Central African Republic (Ubangi Shari): a woman with greatly distended upper and lower lips. Process print after a bronze sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, ca. 1933.

Chad (?): a woman of the Sara tribe with greatly distended upper and lower lips. Photograph of process print, 19--.

Africa: a woman with scarification on her chest and arms, and with plugs in her ear-lobes and lower lip. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 19--.

Botocudo people of the Rio-Grande de Belmonte, Brazil. Coloured aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1821, after M. Wied-Neuwied.

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