puppet;
toy
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.737.d
- Description
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Puppet (one of twelve); made of pottery; in the form of devil?; pottery head (horns painted red, face pink, eyebrows, pupil and eyelashes black, eye white, lips and cheeks red, moustache black) with wire through top; pottery hands and feet attached to green cotton cloth body; gold foil paper on chest with multicoloured feathers underneath.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Height: 16.50 centimetres
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Width: 6 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Sayer, Chloë. Arts and Crafts of Mexico. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990 pp. 107, 115.
- 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
- Am1978,15.737.d