Heads and tales
By: by Malvina Hoffman
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
Copyright date: 1936, by Malvina Hoffman
Subjects: Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Ill.) Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall; Artists -- Biography; Sculpture; Ethnic groups; Indigenous peoples -- Africa; Africa -- Description and travel
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.