Sheet Music, Ten Little Fingers And Ten Little Toes (Down In Tennessee): Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Ten Little Fingers And Ten Little Toes (Down In Tennessee): date made: 1921. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
The words to this song are by Harry Pease and Johnny White and music by Ira Shuster and Ed G. Nelson. It shows how counting body parts has become a standard way of describing people.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1921
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 13.3 cm x 31 cm; 1/32 in x 5 1/4 in x 12 7/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.001
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- catalog number: 1988.3086.001
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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