Sextant
Brass sextant with primitive artificial horizon. Brass with handwritten note (by Francis Galton?). In mahogany trapezoid box. A sextant is an instrument used for navigation and surveying. Galton used this sextant to map parts of Namibia. He also used the sextant to take measurements of a Damara woman from a distance without her permission. Asbestos Inspection - Non-Asbestos. Eugenics Department.

Cary

c. 1850

London

brass, mahogany

Galton Collection

LDUGC-004

464000003

UCL Galton Collection