Model of the Heart of a Dugong
date: label: date made
content: About 1895
name: label: maker
content: Etablissements du Docteur Auzoux
notes: label: Description
content: Papier mache model of the heart of a dugong (sea lion) made in the Auzoux factory in Normandy, France. The Smithsonian bought it in 1895, probably paying $10 (duty free).
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co. <i>Catalogue of Anatomical Models, Charts and Osteological Preparations</i> (Philadelphia, 1886), p. 14.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Anatomy
label: Subject
content: Education
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.28824.05
label: catalog number
content: 49340
label: accession number
content: 28824
label: catalog number
content: 28824.05
label: catalog number
content: 49340
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Anatomical Model
label: Object Name
content: model, anatomical, dugong heart
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall:;
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.3 cm x 15 cm x 10.4 cm; 10 3/4 in x 5 7/8 in x 4 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 11 in x 7 in; 11.7475 cm x 27.94 cm x 17.78 cm