Word: bushwoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...models, found in a native village, were approved by anthropologists from Cape Town as typical examples of the race, but in anthropological handbooks the women of the Kalahari Bushmen are invariably noted for the enormous size of their buttocks. Later German scientists complained that the modeled Kalahari Bushwoman was not sufficiently steatopygic. Seriously Malvina Hoffman replied that because of the controversy she had arranged to have the buttocks of her bronze Bushwoman made of thick flexible rubber so that they might be inflated or deflated according to which anthropologist was expected to call at the Field Museum...
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