Royal Seal (Pra Trah)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition, Royal Siamese Commission
notes: label: Notes
content: A photo of this artifact from the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia is in the Free Library of Philadelphia collections and is available online: Centennial Photographic Co.. Royal coat of arms of Siam. Stereoviews. Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, PA. https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/2027. (accessed Oct 17, 2017). See p. 63 in the U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1888, where among the work peformed by J. W. (John Walter) Hendley, museum preparator, is this notation: "Siamese coat of arms repaired and regilded" (this page can be viewed online https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31195826 ).
label: Notes
content: See pp. 116-118 in Taylor, Paul Michael, 2018. "Reinterpreting King Chulalongkorn's Royal Gift of Theatrical Images at Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exposition." Arts of Asia 48(3):114-124 (May-June 2018). See also Taylor, Paul Michael, 2020. "King Chulalongkorn's Royal Seal, Lost and Found." Arts of Asia 50(1):102-103 (January-February 2020).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Oct 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thailand, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005318
label: USNM Number
content: E27438-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Seal