oddities and savages

"A DANGEROUS BEAUTY IN SULLEN MOOD
She has stood, until weary of attracting attention, by a wall in Biskra, this geisha of the Sahara, with her hard-won dowry of gold and silver adorning her person. She can sing Arab love-songs, play flute, hautboy, and zither, and dance more seductively than girls of any other tribe. Her skill in making cigarettes and coffee is famous, and all her charms and accomplishments are for hire."

PROUD MASCULINE MOTHER OF FIGHTING MEN
Poised in her doorway in festival attire, this masterful woman of the once forbidden Somali city of Harrar is a blend of warlike invaders. Somalis and Gallas, Beduins, with Egyptians and Abyssinians, fought and mingled. An old slander runs that at times, when meat is unobtainable, the Harrar woman will eat children

I found this amazing book online called The Secret Museum of Mankind. Published in 1935, it lacks author, credits, and copyright, and has been scanned and posted on the internet under the creative commons act. It's mainly just pictures, with minimal information, just some sensationalist commentary--totally racist, and often pretty sexual, but also kind of hilarious.

http://ian.macky.net/secretmuseum/front_cover.html