Cannibal Collection (#4)

English satirical engraving, 1780, attacking King George III, center, sharing a cannibal feast with an Indian chief
GEORGE III CARTOON, 1780. English satirical engraving, 1780, attacking King George III, center, sharing a cannibal feast with an Indian chief, for using Indian allies against the Americans

CANNIBALISM. Natives of the Caribee Islands feasting on Human Flesh. Color line engraving, English, late 18th century

WORLD MAP: GRYNAEUS. Detail from the Grynaeus world map, attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532

The Notting Hill Giant
A medieval carving, on a ceiling in the Audit Room at Chethams Hospital, Manchester, England, of the legendary Notting Hill Giant, eating a poor boy. Date: Medieval

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) dead young, killed and eaten by another Polar Bear, on pack ice, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, september

Fossil worm (Ottoia sp.) from the Burgess Shale area. This priapulid worm lived in the Middle Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. This worm lived in U-shaped burrows in sediment on the seabed

Silent Still: Man in Distress. Lupino Lane
SILENT STILL: MAN IN DISTRESS. Lupino Lane

PMYT2A-00037
Sinbads companion eaten by a giant in one of the tales in 1001 Arabian Nights. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Gustave Dore illustration

The cannibal Temple (Temole) - Fiji
The cannibal Temple (Temole) - Bau, Fiji

Stanley / Lt. Stairs
Emin Pasha relief expedition : the expedition is attacked by the Avisibba, a cannibal tribe, and Lieutenant Stairs gets an arrow in the chest (fortunately not fatal)

Racial Types / New Zealand
A group of indigenous New Zealanders cooking and consuming their enemies

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