Paintings of Mongolian shamans
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 317691
name: label: Artist
content: Unknown
place: label: Place
content: East Asia
label: Place
content: Mongolia
label: Place
content: Russia
topic: label: Topic
content: Shamans
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The paintings were given to the Department of Anthropology through exchange by C.J. Smith of Washington, D.C. in 1922 (USNM Accession 68111).
creator: label: Artist
content: Unknown
setName: label: See more items in
content: Paintings of Mongolian shamans
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Paintings (visual works) (oil on canvas, framed, 22.25 x 26.5 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS317691
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Paintings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Oil paintings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The two paintings in this collection were originally cataloged under MS 317691 and MS 317692.  In 2023, the collection was reprocessed and both items were incorporated into a single collection under MS 317691.  The archivist replaced the titles previously assigned to the paintings with the titles provided by the artist.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Oil paintings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of two (2) framed oil paintings.

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