that they had long had a crystal skull of their own. Bought from Tiffany's in New York in 1898, it was believed to be of Aztec origin and to have been looted from Mexico by a soldier of fortune.

The idea of the primitive has long been a potent and highly influential current in British thought and history.footnote 1 In particular, the period 1918–30 saw primitivism established as an important ...