Head For Female Mannequin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1893
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tetsuka Shimamura & Company
notes: label: Notes
content: Mannequin head of a woman with hair in pony tail, Japanese, and in style of Edo period, per Barbara Watanabe. Head has glass eyes, and hair which appears to be human hair. Formerly # NT20818 and stored in Physical Anthropology Division, but Japanese made, so had been changed to Ethnology ET20818. However further research identifies this as the head for one of the two mannequins number 168799. This is the head for the standing mannequin of the pair. As of 2017, only the head for the mannequin has been located. A photo which appears to show the mannequin group and birdcage at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, where it was displayed at the Japanese Bazaar on the Midway Plaisance prior to being purchased by the Smithsonian, is available online. The photo title is "Japanese Bazar at 1893 World's Fair, The Columbian Exposition, Chicago", and it is from Glimpses of the World's Fair: A Selection of Gems of the White City Seen Through a Camera. Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1893. The url to view the image is: http://gildedage.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-gildedage%3A19975 . The mannequins and birdcage can be seem in the center display window of the building in the photo. You can find some information on the Japanese Bazaar here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210427134045/https://worldsfairchicago1893.com/2019/11/20/echoes-of-the-white-city-3/ .
label: Notes
content: This mannequin head is visible in some photos taken of Andreas Joseph Andrews, chief preparator in the Department of Anthropology Conservation Laboratory, working in his lab in 1967. The photos are Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-008, Box 07, Image No. OPA-1104, https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_372110. These are digitized strips of film negatives, but you will be able to zoom in on them. If you look at the bottom strip, the first 3 frames from the left, you will see Japanese mannequin head on the table.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027832
label: USNM Number
content: E168799-14
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mannequin
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 40.5 cm