Christening Ceremony for Orangutan "Bagong"
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintID: SIA Acc. 11-008 [OPA-1620]
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white negatives
Date: 1970
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-008, Box 15, Image No. OPA-1620
Christening ceremony for one month old male orangutan Bagong at the residence of Indonesia's Ambassador to the United States, Soedjatmoko, with foster mother Louise Gallagher, wife of the Headkeeper of the Division of Small Mammals and Primates at the National Zoological Park, Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, Mary Livingston Ripley, and Soedjatmoko, his wife, Ratmini Gandasubrata, and daughters. Bagong was born on March 4 to National Zoo orangutans Archie and Jennie.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-008, Box 15, Image No. OPA-1620
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white negatives
SIA Acc. 11-008 [OPA-1620]
35mm;