“Ethnographical busts”
This plaster cast is one of eight in the collection of the Haffenreffer Museum. They’re a bit of a mystery; there’s no paperwork on them. And they’re not the sort of thing the museum traditionally collected. They came from the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, in the 1980s. That’s about as much as we knew. As much as we knew from the object, anyway. As historians, anthropologists, and curators, we knew that these figures of “races of…
