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Garden of Eden (Celeste and Snake)

Major collection: Holography
Named collection: Holography Collection
Object type: hologram
Maker: Multiplex Moving Holograms; Claudius, Peter
Date made: 1978
Materials: 120° integral stereogram (Multiplex); film
Measurements: 9 1/2 in x 19 in
Nomenclature: commercial
Classification: holograms

When viewer stands to right of hologram, a nude woman stands among a grouping of ferns, holding an apple in her right hand, facing the viewer; a long snake is coiled around her body, and she stares at the snake's head, which she holds in her left hand; as viewer moves toward left, the woman raises the apple to her mouth and takes a bite, while slowly turning around until she is finally seen in slight profile, her backside partially visible; rainbow-colored image.


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MOH-1978.41