Chinese Figures Carved In Wood (2 Groups)
name: label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3942-3. CARVED IN WOOD. THESE FIGURES REPRESENT RELIGIOUS SAGES OR TEACHERS."
label: Notes
content: Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on the catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution and attributes to National Institute instead. It may be part of National Institute Accession 81 or 135?
label: Notes
content: E3932 - E3939, and E3941 - E3944, though identified as Chinese, may be the "Curious figures from Siam, made of roots, assisted by art - Presented by Prince Monfanoi [sic]" (Momfanoi, a.k.a. Prince Chuthamani, a.k.a. Phra Pinklao, brother of Mongkut, King Rama IV) listed as on exhibit in National Institute exhibit case 13, p. 25 of National Institute for the Promotion of Science, Washington, D.C. A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities In the National Institute, Arranged In the Building Belonging to the Patent Office. Washington: A. Hunter, 1855 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101013254337?urlappend=%3Bseq=29 . On pp. 495-496 in National Institute for the Promotion of Science. 1841[-46]. Bulletin of the proceedings of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, it is noted that a "box of curiosities, &c." from "His Royal Highness, Prince Momfanoi of Bankok, Siam" (Momfanoi, a.k.a. Prince Chuthamani, a.k.a. Phra Pinklao, brother of Mongkut, King Rama IV), was donated to the National Institute. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.72855682;view=1up;seq=561 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E3943-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure