The Secret Museum Of Mankind

One afternoon, in the same anthropology section of San Francisco's Austen Books where I scored cheap editions of Conversations with Ogotemmeli, The Gift, and a rare copy of Herskovitz' Life in a Haitian Valley, I stumbled across a mighty bizarre volume known as The Secret Museum of Mankind. Lacking page numbers, pub date, or any editorial information beyond the name of an obscure press (Manhattan House), this apparently early-1930s volume consists of a couple thousand captioned "photographs" of traditional folks...