Silk Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: King Maha Mongkut
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIN LIGHT BLUE SILK BAG WITH A TOP FLAP AND SMALL BUTTON AND LOOP ATTACHMENT. THIS BAG WAS ALSO MEANT TO CONTAIN THE DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAIT OF THE KING AND HIS DAUGHTER (actually his son, not his daughter) CAT. NO. 446 (OR 4003), WHICH APPARENTLY NEVER ACTUALLY CAME TO THE MUSEUM BUT WENT DIRECTLY FROM STATE DEPT. TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, WHERE IT STILL IS: MAY 1969. ONCE ON LOAN TO DIV. OF NAVAL HISTORY, FROM WHOM RETURNED 8/14/67."
label: Notes
content: E74 is a blue silk envelope marked to be for "the royal portraits and card and card form", so therefore possibly may once have held photos E4002 and E446 (E4003)?
label: Notes
content: Illustrated and described in McQuail, Lisa. 1997. "Treasures of Two Nations: Thai Royal Gifts to the United States of America" Smithsonian Institution. p. 49
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thailand, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Siamese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 266032
label: USNM Number
content: E74-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag