mask, death
notes: label: Description
content: This death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte is a plaster cast painted gold. It was created for the United States National Museum in 1904 from a copy of the death mask that Lieutenant John W. Timmons, U.S.N., obtained in Paris. The copy was originally made for the museum’s anthropological collections, but when the National Museum diversified into the Smithsonian Institution we know today, the mask was transferred to the history collections, where it remains today.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Anthro Lab (made for SI)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.010331
label: catalog number
content: 010331
label: accession number
content: 43522
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mask, Death
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: painted (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 7 in x 8 in; 35.56 cm x 17.78 cm x 20.32 cm