figurine
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.486
- Description
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Figurine; made from gourd and lacquered; in the form of snake; painted red with white, black and yellow diamonds outlined in white on either side of blue line down back; facial features white.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.50 centimetres
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Width: 14 centimetres
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Depth: 42 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Sayer, Chloë. Crafts of Mexico. New York: Doubleday, 1977 p. 70.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977-1978, London, Horniman Museum
- 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
- Am1978,15.486