Zur Osteologie der Lappen. Bd 1-2

Description:

1. Band: Text; 2. Band: Masstabellen und Tafeln. Text German. Bd 2 contains 89 plates of line drawings (Kraniogramme und geometrische Zeichnungen, most double-page, a+b) and 101 photographic plates of skulls and other bones.

Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie B: Skrifter XVIII 1 + 2.

Kristian Emil Schreiner (1874-1957) was a Norwegian anatomist and the leading authority on physiognomy. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Oslo, 1908-1945. In this controversial work, he studied the skeletons of the Sami people, mostly excavated between 1914 and 1922 from cemeteries that were in use from 1600-1800 and from contemporary cemeteries against the protests from local Russian Orthodox priests. The work was popularly known in Finnmark as the "hodeskalleboka", "skull book. Schreiner was Edvard Munch’s (1863-1944) personal physician and he produced a number of portraits of Schreiner.

Condition

2 vols, 4to, orig. half leather, worn, short tear to head of Bd 2, marbled boards, edges uncut. Both volumes inscribed by the author, Bd 1 to Miss M.L. Tildesley (1883-1976) Curator of Human Osteology, Royal College of Surgeon; Bd 2 to the anthropologist Geoffrey McKay Morant (1899-1964).