Sawtche, named sarah "saartjie" baartman in europe (ca. 1790 - 1815), called the hottentot venus, captured in south africa, exhibited in europe as a freak show attraction, forced into prostitution, studied as a specimen of "woman of race bôchismann" in 1815 by étienne geoffroy saint-hilaire and georges cuvier, which deduced theories on the inferiority of some human races. These images are taken from volume ii of the "illustrations of the natural history of mammals. " they are found between the representations of a corsican mouflon (female), and a langur (male). Date: 1815.
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