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Summary

Description

Californian Digger Indians — historical printed caption of the complete seven-head engraving in Robert Brown, The Races of Mankind: Being a Popular Description of the Characteristics, Manners, and Customs of the Principal Varieties of the Human Family, vol. I (London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1873; catalogue date]), printed p. 164. Brown is the book's author; the illustration's artist and engraver have not been established, and the small engraved monogram is not expanded by guesswork. The wording of the historical caption is retained as source evidence.

Matches the four left-hand figures of the cut-out at the lower left of H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 9, page 93. Hair and facial contours, flower wreath, garment folds, pendant, and individual engraved strokes agree. The album contains a partial crop of this one group; this source image shows the complete seven-head composition and its original caption. It is not seven independently counted illustrations. The particular physical copy/printing used for the album cutting and first-ever publication are not established by this witness. Album material remains separate and unchanged.

Source

University of Toronto, Robarts Library, call number AAY-4575, digitized by the Internet Archive: item racesofmankindbe01browuoft, ark:/13960/t9959fv8n. The exact current record, checked 5 November 2026, identifies volume 1, author Robert Brown (1842–1895), publisher Cassell, Petter & Galpin, the Toronto/Robarts copy and bracketed catalogue date [1873]. That date is not treated as a year printed on this illustration page.

• Library/Internet Archive item record.
• Complete source page, physically numbered 164.
• Full-size processed-page JPEG used for the crop.

The reader URL's page label is offset: the actual printed folio 164 and matching caption in JP2 leaf 0182 establish the page used. A previously inspected adjacent p.163 is not the source of this file. Thank you to the University of Toronto, Robarts Library and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and freely providing the colour scan.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving from a nineteenth-century volume catalogued as [1873]. The current Internet Archive record reports an earlier copyright-evidence inspection finding no visible copyright notice and an unknown exact publication date, with copyright region US. The bracketed catalogue year and the printed source identity are preserved without converting that note into a more precise date. No Creative Commons licence, CC0 or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this particular scan. The library and digitizer are credited above.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 2125 × 1575 pixels. Source: archive BookReader's full-size JPEG rendering of the processed JP2 leaf 0182, 2678 × 3828 pixels, 1179065 bytes, SHA-256 a4dde67367b73d148f0c58e104a8595c50e299dfb2a419cfdc45a7126f617fd1. This is a processed access representation, not an original camera file. Natural paper colour, show-through and original marks remain.

Alignment measured from 24 inlier printed-caption glyph bottoms in source rectangle (1000,2570)–(1700,2630): 0.091984552 degrees, sufficiently level to retain the original pixels without rotation or resampling. Crop (285,1090)–(2410,2665), right and bottom exclusive. Complete matrix, all seven figures, monogram and caption retained; adjacent prose stays in the linked complete page. Independent exact pixel replay and source-supported-area mask minimum 255 checked. No added canvas, enlargement, tonal or colour correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction.