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Typecast: Galton in Egypt
Francis Galton visited Egypt twice. Once as a young man and once as an old man in 1899-1900, when he also visited Flinders Petrie at his excavations in Abydos. This panel (Text for Panel 14) considers...
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Typecast: Petrie, Politics and Eugenics
Flinders Petrie had strong political views which he publicly expressed in the 1900s as a member of the Anti-Socialist Union and in his argument for eugenics Janus in Modern Life (1907). This panel...
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Typecast: Faces from Amarna – what do you think?
In this panel (TypecastPanel_11) the cast of the racial type of the ‘man from Mitanni’ is shown alongside the profiles of Akhenaten and his family to try and illustrate what Petrie was arguing. In the...
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Typecast: Return to Racial Types
Flinders Petrie returned to his 1887 racial photographs many times throughout his work. We have one example in the Petrie Museum of a ‘racial type’ cast that he took due to his belief that it looked...
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Typecast: Francis Galton at UCL
Francis Galton (1822 – 1911) was a scientist who worked on biostatistics and human genetics, as well as a traveller and inventor of scientific instruments. This panel (TypecastPanel_09) explains why...
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Typecast: Mummy Portraits – Contested Identities
The next big archaeological project Petrie went on to was his first excavation at Hawara in the Fayum in 1888-89. Petrie was searching for the lost Labyrinth from the Middle Kingdom period of Egypt but...
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Typecast: Political Correctness Gone Mad?
Objects in museums and collections often have labels that use expressions or descriptions now considered outmoded or even offensive. This panel (TypecastPanel_07) discusses the meaning ‘race’ in the...
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Typecast: Exhibition and Publication
Flinders Petrie prepared the casts for display and to be photographed in the publication Racial Photographs from Egyptian Monuments. This panel (TypecastPanel_06) considers the nature of the contents...
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Typecast: Racial Photographs from Egyptian Monuments
For about 3-4 months in 1886-87 Flinders Petrie took photographs and casts of different ‘racial types’ on Egyptian monuments, mainly in and around Luxor and Thebes at Karnak and tombs in the Valley of...
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Typecast: Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton
All the panels for the Typecast: Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton exhibition are now downloadable from petriemuseum.com. Each blog post gives additional information, research or audience reactions to...
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