Object Details
- Description
- This tan paper model has sixteen triangular faces. Eight come together at one vertex, and eight others at an opposite vertex, with a regular octahedron around the middle. The object may be called an eight-sided double pyramid.
- A tag reads: 294. Another mark reads: 2/12/30.
- Compare MA.304723.161 and MA.304723.596.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- date made
- 1930 02 12
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 6 cm x 14.5 cm x 7 cm; 2 3/8 in x 5 23/32 in x 2 3/4 in
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
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