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Bottlecap Giraffe
completed after 1966
Unidentified
carved and painted wood, bottlecaps, rubber, glass, animal hair and fur, and sheet metal
72 1/2 x 54 x 17 1/2 in. (184.2 x 137.2 x 44.5 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
1986.65.283
Smithsonian American Art Museum
1st Floor, West Wing
Keywords
Animal - giraffe
Fantasy - animal - giraffe
sculpture - assemblage
folk art
plant material
readymade - bottlecap
rubber
wood - plywood
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