'Ethnographic Exhibition' [Paris Exhibition, 1878]
'Esposizione Etnografica'
Rome, Italy
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1878
Colonel Le Clerc organized an ethnographic gallery inside his own museum of artillery for the International Exhibition of Paris in 1878. He arranged 72 examples of warriors coming from almost every part of the world in a three-room exhibit. These characters were modelled from actual examples and resembled Arabic, Australian, African and Indian people with costumes and features. The exhibition paid great attention to facial renderings and the physical appearance of the warriors.
L'Esposizione di Parigi del 1878 illustrata, Sonzogno Editore, 1878, p. 525.
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Marina Minozzi "'Ethnographic Exhibition' [Paris Exhibition, 1878]" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;232;en
Prepared by: Marina Minozzi
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell
MWNF Working Number: IT2 090
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