White Whale Heart (cast)
name: label: maker
content: Crile, George Washington
notes: label: Description
content: George Washington Crile (1864-1943)—an Ohio surgeon and co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic—made casts of animal organs for his study of metabolism. This is his cast of the heart of a white whale.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. G. W. Crile Dies; Noted Surgeon, 78,” New York Times (Jan. 8, 1943), p. 19.
label: Description
content: “Doctor to Seek ‘Life Spark’ in Jungle Beasts,” New York Herald Tribune (Dec. 18, 1938), p. 14.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0077.01
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0077.01
label: accession number
content: 1995.0077
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cast, White Whale Heart
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wax (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.2 cm x 21.6 cm x 26 cm; 4 in x 8 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in