"Fiji or Feejee Mermaid" or "Japanese Mermaid" or "Japanese Monkey-Fish"
Tokyo, Japanese
19th century
Varnished juvenile monkey skeleton fused to a petrified fish body and tail
Overall: 3 7/16 × 12 5/8 × 2 13/16 in. (8.8 × 32 × 7.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Edwin Webster Sanborn, Class of 1878
28.6.5098
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
19th century
Object Name
Animal Remains
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 82, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Spring 2014
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Spring 2014
ANTH 7.5, Animals and Humans: A Beastly Experiment in Ethics, Theory & Writing, Laura Ogden, Winter 2015
ARTH 65, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Winter 2015
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Winter 2015
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Winter 2015
ARTH 83, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2015
PSYC 7.03, Why People Believe in Weird Things: Credulity, Science and Pseudoscience in the Study of Human Behavior, John Pfister, Winter 2019
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 28, Insatiable Appetites: Curiosity, Consumption, and the Traveler in Historic Japan, Catherine Roberts, Class of 2005, Special Projects Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19-December 4, 2005.
Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.
Regional Selections 30, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 7-August 3, 2003.
Publication History
Alice Gomstyn, "What's Under the Hood? A peek at some of the rarest and most offbeat items housed in the College's Hood Museum of Art," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, vol. 96 no. 4, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, March-April 2004, pp. 30-31, ill. pp. 31.
Provenance
Collection of Edwin Webster Sanborn [1857-1928], New York, New York; bequeathed to present collection, 1928.
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