Rare depiction of a group of Aborigines roasting lizards over a fire.

Rare depiction of a group of Aborigines roasting lizards over a fire.

The lithograph comes from Schinz's Naturgesichte und Abbildung des Menschen der Verscheulenen Rassen und Stamme, which was a comparative anthropological study of racial types and physiognomy.

The author served as professor of zoology at Zurich, where he founded the zoological collection and wrote a number of works in related fields including similar studies of branches of zoology.