FMNH 254318.nosub[1]

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM - ETHNOLOGY | Provenience: CHINA, western [ written in red ] 54B-5/02 | People or Culture: Chinese, period uncertain, late Ching, 18th or 19th | Object: shadow figure | Material: painted hide, wire, bamboo | Description: The figure is a man with a tan cut-out face and a tan beard slit lenthwise; the headdress is yellow, orange, red, and tan and has 2 red flowers and a dragon; robe is tan, red, green, and yellow; design includes areas of net-like material, flowers, wheels, and dragons; on his back hangs an object, torn but repaired with wire; a dragon appears on this object; a tan flower on the chest is also torn and repaired with wire; the figure has three wire and bamboo handles: 1 attached to each hand and 1 attached to the neck. [ sketch included] | Dimensions (in cm.): height: 38.0, width: 14.0 | Collection: C. F. Bieber Collection of Asian Folk and Minor Arts, purchased from Miss Caroline Frances Bieber 15 November 1962 [LEFT MARGIN] A [in red] ENT | 254318 | Field No. | Neg. No. | Acc. 2786 |
Catalog Number: 254318.nosub[1]
Description: shadow figure
Materials: animal hide, pigment, metal, bamboo
Cultural Attribution: Han Chinese
Time Period: Late Qing Dynasty - 18th-19th century AD
Accession Number: [2786] C. F. Bieber (Purchase)
Accession Year:
Collector/Source: C. F. Bieber, C. F. Bieber
EMu IRN: 1162604
GUID: 6d3e82c2-0e75-4bf4-968e-c6229d1018bb

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