Object Details
- Description
- The underlying structure of this model is a regular octahedron. It has only four green transparent faces and four holes. At each vertex is a paper hexagon sith six small triangular faces. A mark on the model reads: 486 (/) IS (4). Wheeler included the model in his subgroup icosahedra.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- green (overall color)
- cut, folded & glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 4.7 cm x 5.6 cm x 5.6 cm; 1 27/32 in x 2 7/32 in x 2 7/32 in
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
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