# Clown Shadow

a hard-edged cast shadow with a pointed hat, neck ruff, three suit pom-poms, oversized shoes, and one long knife, with no physical body or visible source

Object · Fictional · Established

Stable ID: `nyc-1986-clown-shadow` · Revision 2 · Updated 2026-10-30

Context: [New York, 1986](/field-guide/collections/nyc-1986/)

[Web page](/field-guide/entities/nyc-1986-clown-shadow/) · [JSON record](/field-guide/entities/nyc-1986-clown-shadow/record.json)

## Appearances

- [New York, 1986](/research/johns-world/johns-world-1986.html) (context: [New York, 1986](/field-guide/collections/nyc-1986/))

## Sources

- Unpublished source notes: New York, 1986: endless-museum.json (revision sha256:6afa4b1e8cbc58d977f48765ffaafc3d2de51a96e9ed7c5b29c7b3719315f940)

## Reference library

### Detail

![The pointed hat, ruff and knife of the Clown Shadow on the conservation-room wall.](/field-guide/assets/references/nyc-1986-clown-shadow/01-source-view-v1-1200.webp)

The pointed hat, ruff and knife of the Clown Shadow on the conservation-room wall.

[Download full-size image](/field-guide/assets/references/nyc-1986-clown-shadow/01-source-view-v1.webp) · Unpublished Endless Museum production keyframe · v1 · SHA-256: `99b8892fafa5f9c72c78b1bea664ece98a6faf8cd8f718f5ae4256feed20a52e`