Table with anthropometric data from "Types of the South Pacific. Anthropological album of the Godeffroy Museum Hamburg"

The volume “Süd-See Typen. Anthropologisches Album des Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg” (South Seas types: anthropological album of the Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg) was published in 1881. In addition to numerous anthropometric photographs, it contains charts of anthropological measurement data. In the field of physical anthropology, photography was used from early on to record and document body measurements and proportions. For example, profile, anterior, and posterior views were produced of those persons who were selected for measuring. They were made to stand unclothed in front of a neutral background, next to a clearly visible measuring stick.