Gavrinis Slabs Material

Date:
1894
Reference:
GALTON/2/9/6/7
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Gavrinis Slabs Material. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Notes, correspondence and photographs relating to Galton's interest in the Gavrinis slabs [also written Gavr'inis or Gavriniz], which are decorated slabs from the Gavrinis passage tomb, part of a megalithic monument on the island of Gavrinis off the coast of Northern France. Some of the slabs that line the walls of the passage are decorated in a distinctive pattern of loops and whorls.

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1894

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The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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