Cast Of Ivory Sculpture "The Swimming Reindeer"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Apr 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward Lartet
label: Site Name
content: Montastruc
notes: label: Notes
content: Cast of front half (right half)/female reindeer from "Swimming reindeer" sculpture, a Late Magdalenian sculpture, ca. 11000 B.C., of two swimming reindeer, in the British Museum collections, # Palart.550. The sculpture was made in what is now France by an unknown artist who carved the artwork from the tip of a mammoth tusk. The sculpture was found in two pieces in 1866, but it was not until the early 20th century that it was realized that the two pieces fit together to form a single sculpture of two reindeer (female and male) swimming nose-to-tail. (See Wikipedia contributors, "Swimming Reindeer," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swimming_Reindeer&oldid=954975164 ) A99743 is another cast of the same object. A136680 is a cast of the back half of the sculpture.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Apr 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bruniquel, Tarn-Et-Garonne, France, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Magdalenian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001529
label: USNM Number
content: A8146-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure