Anthropological Gallery

Hall of Man sculptures by Malvina Hoffman

Double page spread from The Illustrated London News featuring editorial and photographs relating to the range of sculptures by the American female sculptor, Malvina Hoffman. The sculptures depicted all anthropological types of living races for the Field Museum of Natural History at Chicago. Hoffman was born in New York in 1887 and studied sculpture under Rodin. An example of her work in London is the group on Bush House in Kingsway dedicated to the friendship of English-speaking peoples"

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Quthing, Lesotho - Doll and Artwork of the San Bushmen

Southern Africa - Artwork of the San Bushmen - Quthing District in Lesotho (Basutoland). Hunters chase and throw spears toward an Eland and an Elephant. Inset picture of a doll representing a bushman (complete with bow and quiver of arrows. Date: circa 1909

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Paris Exhibition 1900 - The Trocadero

Slide showing a colour picture of The Mus饠d'Ethnographie du Trocad鲯, the first anthropological museum in Paris, founded in 1878. It closed in 1935 when the building that housed it, the Trocad鲯 Palace, was demolished.. Part of Box 198. Boswell Collection. Paris Exhibition. Slide number 53. The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was a World's Fair held in Paris, France from 6 May to 31 October 1889. It was held during the year of the 100th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. Date: 1889

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans