Man's giant ancestors in Southeast Asia photographs, 1948.

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Man's giant ancestors in Southeast Asia photographs, 1948.

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Photographs showing cases and panels from the temporary exhibit, including teeth of Gigantopithecus, a jawbone of Meganthropus, a Solo man skull of Java, and a skull from the Museum's collection of contemporary Australian Aborigine. Features original Java man specimens which Dr. R.G.H. Von Koenigswald of the Carnegie Institute brought to the United States from Java. They are said to be the "missing link" giving proof that the Java Ape man was human. Photographs were taken by Alex J. Rota. Photographs are identified.

3 photonegatives : b&w.3 photoprints : b&w mounted on file cards.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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American Museum of Natural History

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Rota, Alex J.

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Koenigswald, G. H. R. von (Gustav Heinrich Ralph), 1902-1982

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