Record

Ref NoDEP/LAT/1/2/5
TitleArticle titled ‘Hairy-faced People’
Date[mid 19th century]
Description Of ItemRefers to an exhibition of interest to ethnologists at the Lyric Hall, Great Portland Street of a man and his child, from ‘the forest of Nostroma’, Russia. [Kostroma?] ‘The father’s face is – with the exception of the eyes – completely, we might almost say densely, covered with fine, soft, brown hair of from about four to five inches in length.’ Also refers to teeth.

From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
Extent1 item
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