Chinese Figure Carved In Wood
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1863
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. U S N John Rodgers
label: Donor Name
content: United States North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "POSSIBLY THIS IS THE SPECIMEN LISTED IN JOHN VARDEN'S WASHINGTON MUSEUM CATALOG (ORIGINAL IN SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES) AS FOLLOWS: "THIS IDOL PRESENTED TO COMMANDER I. [sic] RODGERS BY THE NATIVES OF ONE OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS AND BY HIS LADY PRESENTED TO DR. J. S. GUNNELL WHO HAS DEPOSITED IT IN THE MUSEUM." VARDEN RECEIVED IT AUG. 18, 1837. ALTHOUGH THE LOCALITY OF ORIGIN DIFFERS, THE FACT THAT THIS THE ONLY SPECIMEN OF THE KIND COLLECTED BY RODGERS, LISTED IN VARDEN'S CATALOG APPEARS TO SUPPORT THIS IDENTIFICATION.-J.C. E. OCT. 25, 1951."
label: Notes
content: On p. 21 of National Institute for the Promotion of Science, Washington, D.C. A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities In the National Institute, Arranged In the Building Belonging to the Patent Office. Washington: A. Hunter, 1855, there is a description of an object on display in National Institute exhibit case 9 which may be this piece: "Curious figure carved from the root of a tree which partly grows in this shape, and assisted by the ingenuity of the artist, presented to Commodore Rodgers by a native of one of the South Sea Islands ... " http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101013254337;view=1up;seq=25 . If this is referring to Catalogue No. E3940, then this object is most likely part of National Institute Accession No. 81 or 135?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000321
label: USNM Number
content: E3940-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure