Unloading Olmec Head at Entrance of National Museum of Natural History
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Creator: Dougherty, Harold E
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1978
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder April 1978
Riggers unload a five-ton stone Olmec head (1000-800 B.C.) at the Mall entrance of the National Museum of Natural History. A special steel-frame platform was constructed to hold the sculpture. The Olmec head was discovered in 1946 by Smithsonian anthropologist Dr. Matthew W. Sterling at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, Veracruz. The sculpture is part of the exhibit "Treasures of Mexico: From the Mexican National Museum."
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Featured in TORCH, April 1978
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder April 1978
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1978
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Photographic print
94-2877
Color: Black and White; Size: 7 1/4w x 7 1/4h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print