figurine
- Museum number
- Am1990,08.137
- Description
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Figurine; made of pottery; in the form of a skeleton sunbather; rectangular pottery base painted white on top, pink on sides; pink pottery chair on wire legs; skeleton seated on chair, head separate piece of pottery joined to body with coil of wire; skull painted white with black markings; white cotton hair glued on head; body painted beige with black fingers and toes, red bathing suit; white pottery umbrella, painted with red and green wavy lines and black dots, on wire stand next to chair. Used in Day of the Dead Festival.
- Production date
- 1980s
- Dimensions
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Height: 14 centimetres
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Width: 6 centimetres
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Depth: 9.50 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
- 1990
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1990,08.137
