Untitled (West Indian Women Being Measured), c. 1860s. India, 19th century. Three studies mounted on a single card; image 1: x cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/16 in.); image 2: x cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/16 in.); image 3: x cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/16 in.). The eerie depictions of three ages of West Indian women of African descent are early examples of photography’s use by nineteenth-century anthropologists to categorize different ethnic and racial types within the human race. These images were almost certainly taken by a European or Caucasian photographer during a time of colonial occupation.

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