IDNO

P.7943.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: French types, Teutonic, Alpine Mediterranean.

A set of frontal and profile head and shoulder portraits of four men, used to illustrate the teutonic, alpine and mediterranean types of France. [JD 27/10/2009]

Place

W Europe; France; Normandy; Cotentin; Landes; Lodeve; Montpellier

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Collignon (Major Dr.); de Lapouge (Prof)

Collector / Expedition

Ripley, William Zebina [Author]

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: All six images were published in Ripley, William Zebina, 1900, The Races of Europe; a sociological study (Lowell institute lectures) (London, K. Paul Trench, Trübner & co., ltd), p.126, figs. 31-36, with the following captions:
“FRANCE.
[Fig.] 25-26. Teutonic type. COTENTIN, Normandy. Blond. Index 79.
27-28. Alpine type, LANDES. Brunet. Index 90.
29. LODEVE. [Mediterranean types.]
30. Index 76. MONTPELLIER. Brunet. Mediterranean types.” [Full text available on Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Photographer: Ripley quotes the following as the sources for the above photographs:
“25-26. Original ; loaned by Major Dr. Collignon
27-28. Original ; loaned by Major Dr. Collignon
29-30. Original ; loaned by Prof, de Lapouge, of Rennes.” (Ripley, 1913, LIST OF PORTRAIT TYPES. XXV). [JD 2/11/2009]