figurine
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.364
- Description
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Figurine; made of pottery; in the form of skeleton chicken seller; rectangular wooden base, painted green; skeleton woman kneels at back, head separate piece of pottery mounted to body with wire, cotton hair, painted white with black markings, pink eyes, blouse yellow with red accents, skirt pink, holds pottery chicken on right arm; eight pottery chickens on moss in front of woman, painted white with black markings, red comb, yellow beak. Inspired by Day of the Dead Festival.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Height: 6 centimetres
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Width: 6.50 centimetres
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Depth: 9 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977-1978, London, Horniman Museum
- Associated events
- Designed for: 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
- Am1978,15.364
