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[ETHNOGRAPHY] STARR, FREDERICK. Indians of Southern Mexico: An Ethnographic Album.
Chicago: [Printed for the author at the Lakeside Press]: 1899. One of 560 copies, this 187, one of the 500 on heavy paper. Publisher's dark blue cloth. 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (27 x 24 pp.; 32 pp.; 141 collotype plates after photos by Charles B. Lang and Bedros Tartarian. Traces of label removed from head of spine, the front hinge separated at the endpaper and compromised but holding , a clean copy internally.
Frederick Starr travelled twice to Mexico for this work, visiting the Otomi, Tarascan, Aztec, Tlaxcalan, Mixtec, Triqui, Zapotec, Mixe, Tehantepecahno (Axpotec), Juave, Chontal and Cuicatec tribes. The images were made by Charles B. Lang and Bedros Tartarian, with fifty to sixty photos taken for each tribe, including images of individuals, village musicians, crafts, landscapes etc. Charles Merewether of the Getty Research Institute wrote in 2002: "Frederick Starr (1858-1933), an American, created the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago in 1892, where he worked until his retirement in 1923. He conducted ethnographic expeditions worldwide but was especially interested in Japan and Mexico. Starr was one of the chief exponents of physical anthropology and saw the value of photography in being able to provide what was believed to be 'scientific' evidence of racial characteristics and differences. In 1899, he published a photographic album, Indians of Southern Mexico, representing the different physical characteristics of various indigenous groups." see Mexico: From Empire To Revolution, Photographers.
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