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Alternative Title
Skinfaxi
Description
A sturdy, medium-sized horse figurine. It is painted grey with darker grey speckles, mane, forelock, tail and hooves. The molding depicts ribs on both sides of the abdomen. The animal stands equally on all four legs. "China" is painted on the underside to indicate the country of manufacture.
49. Skinfaxi. In the Prose Edda, the bright horse of Dagg, or Day. From its mane was shed light over the earth and the heavens.
Exhibit label:
SKINFAXI, THE HORSE OF DAG.
A gift from His Excellency George Washington.
—The Sixteenth Letter in Ladies and Gentlemen.
Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)
8 x 2 x 7
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Washington, George, 1732-1799
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Romances; Sagas; Mythology, Norse; Scalds and scaldic poetry
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 49, Skinfaxi, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 1, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i049.jpg