Bottlecap+Giraffe

Date: completed after 1966
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1986/1986.65.283_2a.jpg?itok=yRSZNdCK width="293" height="402" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/bottlecap-giraffe-24493"]] || Title: **Bottlecap Giraffe**

Artist: **Unidentified**

Medium: carved and painted wood, bottlecaps, rubber, glass, animal hair and fur, and sheet metal Dimensions: 72 1/2 x 54 x 17 1/2 in. (184.2 x 137.2 x 44.5 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

Accession: 1986.65.283 || Bottlecaps from more than thirty-four brands of beverages (including the French Vichy Etat water bottler, Canada's Molson brewery, and British manufacturers Bryant's and Schweppes) give this giraffe a decidedly cosmopolitan air. Its creator has adapted other materials as well. The ears are fashioned from tree branches and the tail from fur. Like a large pull toy, the giraffe was originally rigged so its mouth would open and close at the pull of a wire.
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