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"Hundskopfmenschen" (people with dog heads) Curiosities, Dogs, Hundskopfmenschen, Kynokephale, Hemikynes, Cynokephale, Strabon, Plutarch Wood engraving published 1881. Original antique print

Animals, Dogs, Curiosities, Dogs, Hundskopfmenschen, Kynokephale, Hemikynes, Cynokephale, Strabon, Plutarch, Nacumera, Java

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"Hundskopfmenschen" (people with dog heads)

Curiosities, Dogs, Hundskopfmenschen, Kynokephale, Hemikynes, Cynokephale, Strabon, Plutarch

Wood engraving published 1881.

Original antique print  

On the reverse side is unrelated text.

Image: 7.5 x 10 cm (2.9 x 3.9")
The Egyptian god Anubis
Andaman Islands, between India and Burma
Nacumera, near Java
People with dog heads (a.k.a: Cynocephalus)
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Sir John Mandeville is the supposed author of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a travel memoir which first circulated between 1357 and 1371. The earliest-surviving text is in French.
Cynocephali, Monstrous Races, Cannibalism, John Mandeville, Age of Discovery
Marco Polo, Livre des merveilles ; Odoric de Pordenone, Itinerarium de mirabilibus orientalium Tartarorum, traduit en français par Jean le
robed garments, shoes, and belted pouches
Cynocephali. Circle of Boucicaut Master, Bibliothèque nationale, c. 1410-1412
Cynocephaly: a remarkable people with the “heads of dogs”.
Ibn Battuta

 

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