'Merman'
- Made:
- 1801-1900 in Netherlands, Japan and Java
- maker:
- Javanese people
Dried merman, possibly Dutch or Japanese, possibly a Javanese ritual figure, possibly 1850-1900.
Dried merman, possibly a Javanese ritual figure, although originally provenenced as either Dutch or Japanese, probably 19th century
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A104048
- Materials:
- fish skin, fish bone, fish scale, animal fur, animal tooth, animal claw - talons, animal tissue - remains and paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
-
overall: 220 mm x 200 mm x 490 mm, .8kg
- type:
- chimera
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust