IDNO

P.7751.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Map of world showing distribution skin colour, Ripley, p.59.”

Map of the world showing the distribution of skin colour ranging from white, mixed white, yellow, brown, black to reddish variable. The figures indicate this in Broca’s scale. The map is made after Gerland. [JD 2/11/2009]

Place

Oceania; America; Europe; Oceania Australasia; Asia; Africa

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Gerland, G.C.C. [Original Author]

Collector / Expedition

Ripley, William Zebina [Author]

Date

circa 1913

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: The image was published in Ripley, William Zebina, 1900, The Races of Europe; a sociological study (Lowell institute lectures) (London, K. Paul Trench, Trübner & co., ltd), p.59, with the following captions:
“Colour of Skin.” [Full text available on Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: The following text is found in Ripley, 1913, p.59:
“In respect of the colour of the skin, we may roughly divide the human species into four groups indicated upon our world map.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: Gerland, G. C. C., 1892. Atlas der Volkerkunde. (Berghaus physikalischer Atlas. Gotha. Abth. 7.) [JD 2/11/2009]