Conning the Children
date: label: date made
content: 1971
name: label: maker
content: Powers, Mark James
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Conning the Children / Sacramento, California at a duplex Powers was renting with his wife -- 1971 / In the late 1960s, the Beatles got into Maharishi Yogi transcendental meditation. The central figure, Gerald Poundstone, had come back from Vietnam and was sleeping in a parachute while he stayed with Powers and his wife. On this day, Powers and Poundstone decided to use the parachute to adorn Poundstone and trick the children into thinking he was a Yogi.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Sacramento
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0222.39
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0222.39
label: accession number
content: 2013.0222
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 7/8 in x 19 7/8 in; 40.3225 cm x 50.4825 cm
label: Measurements
content: image: 14 5/8 in x 19 1/2 in; 37.1475 cm x 49.53 cm