figurine
- Museum number
- Am1986,06.252
- Description
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Figurine, made of pottery, in the form of a skeleton holding a sugar cane seated on the edge of a partially opened footed coffin; coffin painted beige decorated with red and blue markings, large red curlicues of pottery at each corner, white cross decorated with red and blue on top of coffin; bottom half of coffin has several pottery sugar canes and Day of the Dead breads attached to it by wire; skeleton head separate piece of pottery mounted on body with wire, skeleton wears black pottery sombrero decorated with white and red accents, skull painted yellow, eye sockets, eyebrows and bridge of nose black, nostrils blue, teeth red, body painted grey with white and black markings, sugar cane painted red. Used in Day of the Dead Festival.
- Production date
- 1980s
- Dimensions
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Height: 28 centimetres
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Width: 26.50 centimetres
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Depth: 14 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See “Metepec Y Su Arte en Barro”. In: Artes de Mexico 1995:30 for similar pottery.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Used at: Day of the Dead
- Acquisition date
- 1986
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1986,06.252