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 up, and wearing floral hair ornaments, Japanese. Head has glass eyes, and hair which appears to be human hair. Formerly stored in Physical Anthropology Division with no number, but Japanese made, so had been changed to Ethnology. Research identifies this as the head for one of the two mannequins number 168799. This is the head for the mannequin which was kneeling or sitting and holding birdcage # E168799-0. 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: 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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027832
label: USNM Number
content: E168799-15
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mannequin
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 46.5 cm