"A Primitive Chant to the Great Spirit" bronze sculpture

Bronze statue of a slender male figure standing on one leg, with the other bent up behind him, arms raised toward his head and face lifted as if singing. He wears only a short loincloth and a feather at the crown; the dark, glossy patina catches light along the muscular body against a plain backdrop.

Artist

Hermon A. MacNeil

Date

ca. 1894

Medium

bronze

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

2049 × 3000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum