figurine
- Museum number
- Am1989,12.128
- Description
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Figurine; made of pottery; in the form of a skeleton metate (stone for grinding maize) seller; wooden rectangular base painted green; four pottery metate painted grey, with grey grinding stick next to each one; kneeling behind metates is skeleton woman, head separate piece of pottery joined to body with wire, head painted white with black markings, pink eye sockets, blouse white with red trim, skirt pink, white cotton hair. Used in Day of the Dead Festival.
- Production date
- 1980s
- Dimensions
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Height: 5.50 centimetres
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Width: 5 centimetres
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Depth: 7 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1991, London, Museum of Mankind, 'The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead'
- Associated events
- Used at: Day of the Dead
- Acquisition date
- 1989
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1989,12.128