Hermon Atkins MacNeil, The Sun Vow, right detail 2 (reprimanded flash shot), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

            Beginning a set of sculpture photos taken at New York's Metropolitan Museum in June of 2009 (not always numbered consecutively due to the vagaries of the uploading process). I don't get to visit New York as often as I like, and last time I went my Met photos came out as muddy blurs, so this time armed with my digital camera I was determined to get it right.

This is in the Charles Engelhard American Sculpture Court. The Sun Vow practiced by some tribes apparently involved a boy shooting an arrow at the sun. If his chief couldn't follow the arrow's flight because of the sun's glare the boy became a man. I'm not sure if it was mandatory for the boy to be naked.

Some of the shots of this statue were taken with flash, which strictly speaking isn't alowed in the Met. Taking them from the balconies was OK because the guards couldn't see me, but when I took this one at ground level I got a quiet but firm telling-off. Never mind, by that time I'd got all the shots I needed.

PS For some reason, when I originally posted the photos of this statue I got thoroughly confused and mixed up left and right. I don't know how I got so disoriented - if a statue is facing right you're viewing its right side. How simple is that?

This has now been corrected.

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Taken in: United States / New York / Seneca Village (historical) (show map)

Taken on: September 20, 2009

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