Me and the Natives

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Horatio Gordon Robley with his collection of mokomokai (preserved tattooed heads of Māori warriors). General Robley is said to have decorated his bedroom with these. Photograph by Henry Stevens, 1895. Source: Wellcome Library, Wikimedia Commons.

which reminds me

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John Gabriel Stedman, Self-Portrait of the Artist with a Dead Slave at His Feet. From the frontispiece of his “Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam” (published in 1796). Source: Real Distan @ Flickr.

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