Four heads of Botocudo men from Eastern Brazil, South America, with their distinctive wooden disks in lips and ears. Mummified head of a Botocudo man. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.
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5926 x 4973 px | 50.2 x 42.1 cm | 19.8 x 16.6 inches | 300dpiPhotographer:
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