Fiji or Feejee Mermaid
Unknown Japanese, Japanese
19th century
Varnished junvenile monkey skeleton fused to a petrified fish body and tail
Overall: 3 7/16 x 12 5/8 x 2 13/16 in. (8.8 x 32 x 7.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Edwin Webster Sanborn, Class of 1878
28.6.5098
Geography/Culture
Asia, East Asia, Japan
Period
19th century
Object Name
Animal Remains
Classification
Asia
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 83, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2015
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Winter 2015
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Winter 2015
ARTH 65, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Winter 2015
ANTH 7.5, Animals and Humans: A Beastly Experiment in Ethics, Theory & Writing, Laura Ogden, Winter 2015
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Spring 2014
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Spring 2014
ARTH 82, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012
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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