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Title: Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum
Identifier: annalsofsoutha102199sout (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: South African Museum
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Cape Town : The Museum
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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CAPE BUSHMEN: The Bushmen of the Cape appear to have been the purest
blooded representatives of the Bushman stock, much purer than those of the Kalahari

HUMAN SUBJECTS AS MUSEUM OBJECTS 179
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Fig. 6. The casts on display in the South African Museum, c. 1915.
(South African Museum Photographic Collection.)

and other more northerly districts. They are now practically extinct. They were light
in colour and of small or medium height; the prominent posterior development
(steatopygy) of the women was a characteristic feature of the race.
To anthropologists the Bushmen are one of the most interesting races in the world.
There are strong grounds for suspecting that they are of the same stock as the remote
Upper Palaeolithic period. This cannot yet be definitely asserted but recent discoveries
in North and East Africa have tended to strengthen the probability considerably.
(A key to the figures followed, giving approximate age of the subject and locality in
which the cast was made.)

It is noteworthy that, while drawing attention in this label to purity of stock, in the
same year Peringuey published the results of Dr F. C. Shrubsall's craniological analysis
of some 162 skulls, which showed no discernible difference between San and Khoikhoi
(Peringuey 1911). He stated 'I have given up, now, distinguishing between a so-called
Bushman or a so-called Hottentot' (Peringuey 1911: 197). These findings were

180 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM

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  • bookyear:1898
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:South_African_Museum
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:Cape_Town_The_Museum
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
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