Title: Heads and tales /
Authors: Hoffman, Malvina,
Date: 1936
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons,
Physical description: xx, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: "My adventures and experiences of 'headhunting' in the near and far corners of the earth - and how the hundred racial types in the 'Hall of man' of the Field museum in Chicago were selected and modelled on the road."
Notes: "My adventures and experiences of 'head-hunting' in the near and far corners of the earth--and how the hundred racial types in the 'Hall of Man' of the Field Museum in Chicago were selected and modelled on the road."--p. 3. Contains a section on the native tribes of Africa. Maps on end papers.
Subject headings (LCSH): Africa--Description and travel.; Artists--Biography.; Ethnic groups.; Ethnology.; Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Ill.) Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall.; Field Museum of Natural History. Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall.; Indigenous peoples--Africa.; Sculptors--United States--Biography; Sculpture.