Las razas mayores

Item

Title: Las razas mayores
Subject: Bodies
Description: This image, the title of which translates as “The main races”, occupies half a page of the magazine and has two rows, each with four line-drawings. Each drawing has a label and some of these are the names of what were taken, in the early twentieth century, to be the main human “races” - Caucasian, Mongoloid, Indian, Ethiopian. There are some other labels which are semi-serious or humorous - Red (i.e. “Red Indian”, meaning Indigenous American), Modern, Diabolical and Horse.
Country: Argentina
Format: Comic strip
Creator: Séneca, N/A
Date: 1903
Identifier: hd0004149105
Source: Caras y Caretas. Seminario festivo, literario, artístico y de actualidades, Buenos Aires, 7 de marzo de 1903, Año. VI, No. 231.
Item Location: Biblioteca Nacional de España
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Rights Holder - Work: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Rights Holder - Media: Images from the collections of the Biblioteca Nacional de España.