George Montandon (1879-1944), the author of this drawing, was one of the fathers of so-called “scientific” racism. In 1909-1911, he travelled in Ethiopia and gave an account of this to the Geography Society of Geneva. According to him, the natural environment determined human beings’ physical and mental character. The Indigenous peoples of the Ethiopian Massif were thus classified, according to a hierarchy of race, language, religion and social condition, in correlation with geological or even pluviometric parameters, as shown in this section. F. Rossinelli