A man with short dark hair and light skin tone sits facing the left. A pair of hands with light skin tone hold an instrument to the side of the man’s head to measure his ear.
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Establishing racial descent

Establishing racial descent by measuring an ear at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology. Germany, date uncertain.


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