Phrenology Research

Today we were sent to the front of the classroom to look at a little porcelain bust of a head. On the head there were different parts of the brain labeled for different emotions. On the bust, the only things that indicated who made it were, "L.N. Fowler, Phrenology," and a few manufacturing details on the bottom of the bust. Once we were done looking, we came back to our table and began to research. Almost everyone either searched something about Phrenology or L.N. Fowler, and most of us got results fast. One of the fastest ways to get results was to do an image search and look until you found the same type of bust that we were looking at and then use the pictures website. We found out that the piece that we were looking at wasn't an original, but was a replica made out of Oregon. We also found out that the way the brain was labeled wasn't correct, our brain doesn't think like the Phrenology busts say it does.

This is what the bust looked like that we were researching.

Provenance- The beginning of something's existence; something's origin.