Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know, for example, that the first photograph ever taken of cannibals partaking of human flesh was secured with the aid of a flashlight camera by Mr. Martin Johnson only two years ago. I inclose a copy...
Your reference to the taste of human flesh (TiME, Aug. 23) prompts me to suppose that you may be interested in certain little known facts about human gastronomy which have come to my notice while preparing a monograph upon cannibalism...
Westermarck, in his Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas declares that among the Fiji Islanders the metaphor "as tender as a dead man" is in good use; and that throughout the South Seas human flesh is well known to be a delicious food "far superior to pork...
Prom the Rev. Dr. Turner's Nineteen Years in Polynesia we learn that "Hands are the choice bits-sacred to the priests," and that the flesh of white men was considered inferior to that of black, being of too salty a taste...
Junghuhn states in his Die Battalander auf Sumatra that the cannibals of that region considered human flesh "better than pork." The toes and the palm of the hand were esteemed as "choice cuts," and humans are still referred to as "long...