Documentation, Instructions for the Bird Brain, for the Piano Playing Duck, and on Animal Care: Museum Object and Cultural History
Documentation, Instructions for the Bird Brain, for the Piano Playing Duck, and on Animal Care: date made: ca 1975. maker: Animal Behavior Enterprises, Inc.. Object Name: manuals, group of.
The object in the museum catalogue
The firm of Animal Behavior Enterprises distributed sets of typed sheets giving instructions for the following:
Piano Playing Duck. This example includes a photocopy of a second, slightly different, version of the text, as well as a loose blueprint.
Animal Care. The sheets give general instructions on caring for trained animals.
For an example of the Bird Brain, see 2004.0075.01. For an example of the Piano Playing Duck, see 2015.0290.01.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1975
- maker: Animal Behavior Enterprises, Inc.
- Object Name: manuals, group of
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (staples, clips material)
- Measurements: overall: .8 cm x 22 cm x 28 cm; 5/16 in x 8 21/32 in x 11 1/32 in
- Subject: Psychology
- Subject: Entertainment, general
- ID Number: 2015.3170.01
- nonaccession number: 2015.3170
- catalog number: 2015.3170.01
- Credit Line: Gift of Damase (Jiggs) and Yvonne Giguere
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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