figurine
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.945.a
- Description
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Figurine (one of eight); made of pottery; in the form of shepherdess; round base painted yellow; woman stands on base, extra prong at back for support; wears sombrero painted white with multicoloured mould-made flowers, black hair, eyebrows and eyes, pink skin, purple dress, white mould-made flowers on ends of braids, kerchief around neck white with yellow and white mould-made flowers.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.50 centimetres
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Width: 8.50 centimetres
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Depth: 8.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Thompson, Amanda. Cerámica: Mexican Pottery of the 20th Century. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001 p. 126-33 for Ocumicho pottery. For a long time, there has been a tradition of toy-making in Ocumicho. In the decades following the time this object was collected, toys got larger and more elaborate. This figure is a shepherdess (pastora in Spanish) from the Christmas "La Pastorela", a traditional play about the shepherds who are told of the the birth of Christ and the triumph of the God's angels over Satan's diablos. Am1978,15.945a-h, 951a-c and 952a-c may have been intended to go in a sequence to tell a narrative story, or could be sold singly or in sets.
- 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
- Am1978,15.945.a
