1-625-048 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Base of the skull, 1848. Comparison of a Negro (native of Kongo), Chilamache native American (from Louisiana), and Chinese (from Canton). During the 19th century, it was believed that negroes and other races were less developed than Europeans. An engraving from the Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard, (Hippolyte Bailliere, London, third edition, 1848).