The photograph ’Anthropometry in Inishbofin’ looks at the Victorian fascination with the science of Anthropometry and reveals a time of racism, deceit and grave-robbing. The story behind the photograph taken in Inishbofin tells how at least 10 skulls were stolen from grounds in the Aran Islands by Dublin and Cambridge scientists. Cambridge scientist Alfred Cort Haddon and Dublin scientist Charles Browne were studying the origins of the Irish race when they visited the Aran Islands in the belief the islanders presented a purer, more primitive model of Irish physicality. Measuring aspects of the human body, in particular head size, Haddon stole at least 10 skulls from the grounds of a ruined church, and stowed them on a boat back to the mainland.