Paul Rivet

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Paul Rivet sits at his desk in an office lined with bookshelves and filing cabinets, wearing a suit and round glasses, Paris, 1946.

Paul Rivet, wearing a suit and holding a hat, sits atop a carved stone statue at Teotihuacan, Mexico, with a stone wall in the background.

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French anthropologist

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Paul Rivet sits at his desk in an office lined with bookshelves and filing cabinets, wearing a suit and round glasses, Paris, 1946.

Paul Rivet

French anthropologist and founder of the Musée de l'Homme Paul Rivet.

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Paul Rivet, wearing a suit and holding a hat, sits atop a carved stone statue at Teotihuacan, Mexico, with a stone wall in the background.

Paul Rivet in Teotihuacan, Mexico

© Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

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