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viewer's right, wearing a patterned shirt and seated in a wooden
chair; image approx 18 cm x 13.5 cm with ''Gov. Copyt.'' and ''
'Toby' Native of Api 295 J.H.'' in white letters on the bottom edge
of the print; the ''N'' in ''Native'' is reversed. Undated (1874?);
reproduced as Fig 70.
13. Proof: Natives of Timor, photographic image showing 3 young
men wearing loose robes and head-dresses, two carrying long
bamboo? pipes on which one is leaning his hands and chin; a
building wall and barred window is behind them. Fig 71, ''from a
photograph'' but undated and unattributed.
14. Photograph, faded sepia, approx. 9.5 cm x 12.5 cm mounted
on slightly larger card, showing 3 young men wearing loose robes
and head-dresses, two carrying long bamboo? pipes on which one
is leaning his hands and chin; a building wall and barred window
is behind them; annotated in pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's?
hand ''Natives of Timor | 8813 | scale | 1/1'', cropping line in
pencil on the left, numbered in pencil on the back ''16514''.
Notes: A version of ''New Guinea and its Inhabitants'' was first
published in ''Contemporary Review'', Feb 1879.
Most proofs are very dirty with inky fingerprints; photograph of
Timor natives is faded and mount dirty and foxed.
WP6/6/8 Papers re Studies Scientific and Social
Notes, folder cover, photos and proof sheets annotated in Alfred
Russel Wallace's and other hands, of black and white images, most
approx. 13 cm x 9 cm, illustrating 'Affinities and Origin of the
Australian and Polynesian Races' in Alfred Russel Wallace,
''Studies Scientific and Social'', (London 1900) vol. 1, Ch.XXI, pp.
461-496, figs 72-89, comprising (fig. numbers and attributions as
given in the publication):
1. Notes in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand listing dates, titles and
figure numbers of publications on Cambodia and Indo-China,
beginning ''Voyage au Cambodge'', in ink and pencil on both sides
of a T. Fisher Unwin compliment slip; some entries are upsidedown
in relation to others and some are crossed through.
2. Proof, photographic head and upper torso image of an
Australian native man, bearded, with cicatrices on his chest, facing
camera; fig. 72, attributed to the Anthropological Institute
3. Proof, photographic head and shoulders image of a native
woman from Queensland, Australia; in profile facing to viewer's
left, wearing several bead necklaces, cicatrised upper arms, short
woolly hair; fig. 73, attributed to the Anthropological Institute
4. Proof, photographic head and upper torso image of an old
bearded Australian native man of the Arunta tribe, with very hairy
upper arms, chest and back, facing to viewer's right; fig. 74,
attributed to Professor Spencer.
5. Proof, photographic image of an old bearded Aino (sic, Ainu)
man, naked to the waist, with hairy upper arms, seated with back
to camera on rush matting? which he appears to be weaving; fig.
75, from Hitchcock's ''Aino's of Japan'' by permission Smithsonian
Institute.
6. Proof, photographic image of a family group of the Arunta
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[1883-1900]
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