Dioptrographic tracings in four normae of fifty-two Tasmanian crania
Maker
1. The Royal Society of Victoria (estab. 1859)
2. Richard James Arthur Berry (b.1867, d.1962)
3. Allen William David Robertson (b.1866, d.1954)
Date
Dec 1909
Description
Softcover journal article of 222 pages with green card cover contained in a cardboard sleeve. Published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria 1909, Volume V, Part I, by Professor Richard Berry and research scholar A. W. D. Robertson. The bulk of the publication is comprised of over two hundred full page ‘dioptrographic’ diagrams of Tasmanian skulls, created with an apparatus devised by German anthropologist Rudolph Martin to reproduce skull morphology accurately and consistently in two dimensions. Details on where the skulls came from, the age or life history of the individual from whom they were derived, are almost totally absent – with the notable exception of Truganini.
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