'Hottentot female', 1848. Artist: Unknown

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'Hottentot female', 1848. A woman from the Khoikhoi ethnic group of Southern Africa, formerly referred to by Europeans as hottentots - a term now deemed offensive. An engraving from the Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard, (Hippolyte Bailliere, London, third edition, 1848).

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