Unloading Olmec Head at Entrance of National Museum of Natural History

ID: SIA RU000371 [94-2877]

Creator: Dougherty, Harold E

Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs

Date: 1978

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: April 1978, Image No. 94-2877

Summary

Caption from Torch: "Riggers unload the Olmec head at the Mall entrance of the Museum of Natural History. A special steel-frame platform was constructed to hold the five-ton stone sculpture which dates from 1000 B.C. to 800 B.C."
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 Museums" at National Museum of Natural History.

Featured in the "Torch," April 1978.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: April 1978, Image No. 94-2877

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

1978

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Black-and-white photographs

SIA RU000371 [94-2877]

Gelatin silver prints; 10 x 8;