'Kafir of the Amakosa', 1848. Artist: Unknown

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'Kafir of the Amakosa', 1848. A man from the Amakosah people in what is now South Africa. Kafir, an offensive term, is no longer used. An engraving from the Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard, (Hippolyte Bailliere, London, third edition, 1848).

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