candlestick
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.308
- Description
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Candlestick; made of black-glazed pottery; concentric circles for base, with tube on top to hold candle; mould-made flower on front of tube. Used at Day of the Dead Festival.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 14.50 centimetres
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Height: 16 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977-1978, London, Horniman Museum
- Associated events
- Used at: Day of the Dead
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Acquisition notes
- Objects collected during the 1970s by Chloë Sayer and Marcos Ortiz. They were exhibited in 1977-1978 at the Horniman Museum, and later acquired by the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1978,15.308