Portraits of Wend soldiers and a composite portrait by Henry Pickering Bowditch, published in the McClure's magazine article "Are composite photographs typical pictures?" in 1894 with another composite of Wend soldiers. The photos were also displayed at the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921. Bowditch said, “A study of the faces here presented certainly suggests the conclusion that there must be some racial peculiarities showing themselves in the composite portraits. The two composites of each race are clearly more like each other than like those of the other race, and the squarel
Portraits of Wend soldiers and a composite portrait by Henry Pickering Bowditch, published in the McClure's magazine article "Are composite photographs typical pictures?" in 1894 with another composite of Wend soldiers. The photos were also displayed at the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921. Bowditch said, “A study of the faces here presented certainly suggests the conclusion that there must be some racial peculiarities showing themselves in the composite portraits. The two composites of each race are clearly more like each other than like those of the other race, and the squarely cut jaw and brow of the Wend composites give the impression of greater vigor and strength of character than the more rounded features of the Saxons."
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