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flat fields with drystone walling in front of a long escarpment; a
low building in the right middle ground and a road with a low
bridge and telegraph pole in the foreground. Annotations on the
back in pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand include ''Wasdale
Crag, | Shap | Roches Moutonée'' and ''4433''. Stamped in purple
on the bottom left ''Godfrey Bingley. | Thornichurst, | Headingley,
Leeds'' and in red on the right ''Copyright.'' ''Copyright'' is also
stamped in red on the right lower front of the picture. Undated. A
different image of Wasdale Crag, attributed to Bingley, illustrates
'The Ice Age and its Work ...' (Fig 12, vol. 1).
7. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 11 cm showing
trees in an undulating foreground and treeless hills and bluffs with
some patches of snow, in the background. Annotated on the back
in pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand ''Terminal Moraine |
Inner Tongue | Middle Harbour Flat | Nr Appleby | 4408''; place
probably Cumbria (given the stamp) but ''Middle Harbour'' and
''Appleby'' occur together with ''moraine'' in Cumbria, NZ and the
USA. Stamped in purple on the bottom left ''Godfrey Bingley. |
Thornichurst, | Headingley, Leeds. '' and in red on the right
''Copyright.'' Undated. Possibly considered for, but not published
in, 'The Ice Age and its Work ...' (Vol. 1) where images of other
terminal moraines occur.
8. Sepia photo loosely mounted on paper, image approximately 10
cm x 14 cm, showing three young women and three older men
standing next to each other on short grass with an open hut with a
thatched roof in the background. in row facing the camera; two of
the women are naked to the waist, all three are wearing long
wrapped skirts and have their long hair tied back; the men are
darker skinned, with long shaggy hair, and are wearing loin-cloths;
two carry tall bows and arrows, one in the centre carries a tall
staff. The paper mount has ''Veddahs - Ceylon'' written on the
lower margin in pencil in the same hand as that on the undated and
unattributed photos of Veddahs reproduced in 'Affinities and
Origin of the Australian and Polynesian Races' vol. 1, though this
is not reproduced there.The hand is may be a variant of Alfred
Russel Wallace's or that of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy; see
letter WP1/1/163, from Alfred Russel Wallace to WGW 15 Dec
1898 with postscript from Annie Wallace re photos from Ceylon.
9. Kerry co Sydney sepia photo approx. 19.5 cm x 15cm captioned
on the print ''Port Darwin Native. 6[0]5.''; head and naked upper
torso portrait of a young Australian native man wearing a grass
skirt and headband, seated, facing camera, with crossed arms;
found when listed with item 10 below in a paper folder made from
a lined exercise book page labelled in pencil ''Australians'' in
WGW's? Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand; not published in
''Studies'' but other photos of Australian natives are and this may
have been considered and rejected.
10. Kerry co Sydney sepia photo approx. 19.5 cm x 15cm
captioned on the print '' A Darling River Native. 6[9]6''; full length
photograph of an old bearded Australian native man naked to the
waist and holding a spear? in one hand and throwing stick? in the
other; standing outside a wurly (native shelter) inside which a
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