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Hypodermic Needle and Skull

Major collection: Holography
Named collection: Holography Collection
Object type: hologram
Maker: Claudius, Peter
Date made: 1975
Materials: white light transmission; film
Measurements: 5 in x 9 1/2 in
Nomenclature: fine art
Classification: holograms

Three inch skull (non-human ?), with jaw open, propped up on 2 sets of human leg and feet bones, and 2 sets of human arm and hand bones, to form a monster-like creature; bones are arranged so that feet and hands appear close to foreground; hypodermic needle sits upright in foreground, as though the creature is holding it; good 3-D effect as viewer can `look around' much of the skull; rainbow-colored image.


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MOH-1976.07