Lot 14
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An early 20th-Century brown-wash plaster bust of PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS,
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An early 20th-Century brown-wash plaster bust of PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS,

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An early 20th-Century brown-wash plaster bust of PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS,
after J.H. McGregor's model, scratched on the reverse PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS '21 -- 43.3cm. (17in.) high
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Lot Essay

Eughne Dubois discovered the 'Java Man' in Indonesia in 1891, naming it Pithecanthropus erectus. The modern species name - Homo erectus - was initially proposed by Ernst Mayr in order to unify the classification of Asian fossils. James Howard McGregor, an American biologist and artist, modelled the original bust between 1914-1919 and this can be seen in the American Museum of Natural History.

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