Metal sculpture with keys
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Feb 2003
name: label: Donor Name
content: Eneida Sanches
notes: label: Notes
content: Sculpture titled "Keys in Trance". Frame and stand made of steel bars. Thin metal wires wrapped around the frame to create the shape of what appears to be short pants. Many metal keys, screws, and bolts attached with wire to the frame. Rusted round metal base.
label: Notes
content: In February 2001, Eneida Sanches came to the National Museum of Natural History to work on a sculpture in the Rotunda as part of the African Voices project and NMNH's museum's education program. She had planned to work on religious pieces like those she had made and which are already in the ethnology collection. She encountered a bucket full of keys in a hardware store in Northwest Washington D.C, and decided to create this piece. The store donated the keys, which were rejects. A local welder created the form according to a drawing provided by Sanches. NMNH staff donated additional keys.
label: Notes
content: "Keys in Trance" invites the viewer to explore the possibilities around metaphor on doors, gates, and openings. So is the trance in its poetic aspects-- a passage between this and that world, a circuit visited not only by the religious experience, as known, but also by the art making, music playing, etc."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Afro-Brazilian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2025560
label: USNM Number
content: E430760-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Total Height - Object
content: 113.5 cm
label: Height - Sculpture, Without Stand
content: ca. 66 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: ca. 48 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: ca. 26 cm