Bicycle Girl bust used on the television series, The Walking Dead
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Latex bust of a 'zombie' woman with fine blond hair, an open mouth with rotted teeth and glazed eyes. The “bicycle girl,” prop is the first walker that Sheriff Rick Grimes encounters and eventually kills in season one, episode one. It was made by Greg Nicotero, an executive producer, director, and special effects make up designer for The Walking Dead television series. Based on the comic books by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead deals with a post-apocalyptic society overrun with “walkers.” The show follows Rick Grimes, a sheriff who awakes from a coma to find only a handful of people alive and a lot of decaying undead who want to eat him. Played by Andrew Lincoln, Rick eventually finds his wife and son living with a group of survivors near Atlanta, Georgia. It is here the group must learn to survive in a fallen society, among the undead and roving bands of survivors who prove to be more dangerous than the famished walkers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Entertainment
label: web subject
content: Television
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3129.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2017.3129
label: catalog number
content: 2017.3129.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bust, Bicycle Girl
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: latex (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: hair (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 12 1/2 in x 8 in; 40.64 cm x 31.75 cm x 20.32 cm