A Nuer man from Sudan

Field Museum
Chicago, United States

A life-size bronze sculpture of a Nuer man holding a spear. American artist Malvina Hoffman (1885-1966) created 104 bronze figures, busts, and heads for the 1933 exhibition The Races of Mankind. Each sculpture was meant to portray an activity or facial characteristics representative of a racial type. Fifty of the artworks are featured in The Field Museum's 2016 exhibition Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman.

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Title: A Nuer man from Sudan
Type: Artefact
Contributor: John Weinstein : The Field Museum of Natural History
Rights: (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC

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